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'""XT is with not a little hesitancy that the Senior Law- 
Class of 1897 has undertaken to inaugurate, in the 
University of Nebraska, the custom of publishing a volume 
that shall be distinctly a Law College publication. It is 
with still greater hesitancy that the editors present this* 
work to the critical inspection of an exacting public. We 
crave your indulgence and trust that if our efforts have not 
been rewarded with complete success, they, at least, have 
not been entirely misdirected. 

The Board of Editors are under especial obligations, and 
desire to express their thanks, to the Faculty and to the 
Alumni for their very liberal support and assistance. 



CLASS OF NINETY- SEVEN 



CHARLES EDWIN ABBOTT 

" Blushing is the color of virtue." 
Was born at Taylor ville, 111. , December 1, 
1871. Has made his home at Hayes Center, 
Neb., for the past twenty years. Held im- 
portant clerkships in both national and 
state affairs. A member of the legal fra- 
ternity of Phi Delta Phi. 



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GEORGE I. BABCOCK 

' ' Thou unassuming commonplace of nature. " 
This gentleman was first a resident of the 
state of Wisconsin March 21, 1871. Traces 
his ancestry to the Pilgrim fathers, and 
prides himself in being blooded English. 
Prepared at University of Nebrask B.A., 
'91. Was a member of Palladian Literary 
Society. Home address, North Loup, Ne- 
braska. 




CYRUS OSCAR BROWN 

' ' Comparisons are odorous. " 
Soon after the close of the civil war, an- 
other disturbing element arose in the per- 
sonage of the aforesaid. Mr. Brown was 
born in the state of Iowa, and, like Abra- 
ham Lincoln, selected a log cabin as his 
first residence. Related to Peter Kester of 
Revolutionary fame. Just common, mixed 
blood. Prepared at South Dakota Agri- 
cultural College, B.S. Member of Delian 
Literary Society. 




THE DIGEST 




FKANK E. BROWN 

' I never knew so young a body with so old a head." 
Received the plaudits of an admiring 
public at Spava, 111., in the year 18T2. 
Prepared at University of Nebraska, 
M.A. Assistant in department of Ameri- 
can History, University of Nebraska, 1894— 
'95. Principal of Kearney High School, 
1895-96. Member of Phi Kappa Psi and 
Phi Delta Phi fraternities. 



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JOHN CARR 

"To be great is to be misunderstood." 
First exhibited his bald head sometime in 
the year 1864 and somewhere in the State of 
Indiana. Claims relationship to Darby 
Carr. Prepared at Eastmans, N. Y., and 
Western Normal College. Degrees B.S. 
and M.A. Principal of public schools and 
county superintendent of schools. 




BEACH COLEMAN 

" There may be many Ca?sars 
Ere such another Julius." 

Hails from Mars. Took up his resi- 
dence in Pennsylvania, May 15, 1871. 
Came to Nebraska 1878. Received the de- 
gree of B.L. at Nebraska Wesleyan Univer- 
sity 1895. Member of the Everett Literary 
Society while in University, and president 
during the last term. Member of Phi 
Delta Phi fraternity. He could scrap the 
hardest and longest of any one in the Max- 
well club. Home address, Surprise, Neb. 



CLASS OF NINETY-SEVEN 



THOMAS CREIGH 

"Lord of himself, — that heritage of woe!" 

The evening and the morning were the 
first day to this gentleman August 8, 18 T3; 
place, Lincoln, Neb. 

Traces his ancestry to Adam via Scotland 
and Ireland. Graduated from Princeton 
1894:, with the degree A.B. A member of 
Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Address 1505 
Farnam St., Omaha. 






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DENIS JAMES FLAHERTY 

"As merry as the day is long." 

The magic of his face was first beheld Feb- 
ruary 21, 1871, at Galena, 111. 

Home address, Hartington, Neb. Claims 
to be of American and Irish descent (mostly 
all Irish. ) 

Prepared for the study of law at Creigh- 
ton University and Detroit College, B. A. & 
M.A. Has held all the offices in college 
life. 



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JESSE INES GATES 

"A very gentle heart and of a good conscience." 

Became the town talk at Maine, Brown 
county, New York, February 13, 1868. 

Prepared at Highland Park Normal Col- 
lege of Des Moines, Iowa. Degree B.D. 
Was a principal in public schools before 
coming here. A member of the Delian 
Literary society. Home address, Gaza, 
Iowa. 




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HELEN M. GOFF 

"The observed of all observers," 

Came to this strange earth via Illinois, Oc- 
tober 6, 1870. Is of English descent. Was 
educated at Monmouth College, Monmouth, 
111. Has always been interested in reform 
movements. Present secretary of Nebraska 
State Woman Suffrage Association. Home 
address, Kearney, Neb. 

IYAN WILBUR GOODNER 

"Yet do I fear thy nature; 
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. 

Assumed the responsibilities of life in the 
state of Illinois, July 24, 1858. Was short 
on ' ' fire bote " and burned the genealog- 
ical tree, but has blue and red blood. Six 
years official court stenographer in Dakota 
territory. Clerk of supreme court of South 
Dakota from the time of admission of the 
state until November, 1896. Grand lecturer 
of Grand Lodge of Masons and Grand Mas- 
ter of Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of 
South Dakota. Member of Phi Delta Phi. 

GUY WILDER GREEN 

"Here rills of oily eloquence in soft 
Meanders, lubricate the course they take. " 

Swelled the population of Ottawa, 111. , by 
his arrival there, June 11, 1873. Claims 
relationship to General Nathaniel Green, 
and of course is of English descent. Doane 
College, B. S. President Philomathean Lit- 
erary Society. Captain and manager of 
base ball team while in college. A member 
of Phi Delta Phi. Nebraska representative 
in Kansas and Nebraska debate. President 
of senior law class, fourth term. 



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NATHAN RICKERS GREENFIELD 

" No man can lose what he never had." 

Did his first crying near Freeport, 111., 
February 24, 1874. Is of German stock, 
both grandfathers having fought with Blu- 
cher in the battle of Waterloo. Book- 
keeper in the senate of the twenty-fifth 
session of Nebraska legislature. Will begin 
active practice at once in his home town, 
Lexington, Neb. 




FRANK JASPER GUSTIN 

"Who can tell for what high cause 
This darling of the gods was born. " 

Took his first exercise on July 27, 1877, at 
the city of Princeton, in the state of Illi- 
nois. Has made his home at Kearney, Ne- 
braska, for several years, being a resident 
of this state for the past fifteen years. 
Blood, sky blue and cinnamon. A mem- 
ber of the Sigma Chi fraternity. 




GUY WARREN HASSLER 

' ' A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. " 

Became known to time and sense (?) at Con- 
nellsville, Pa., December 10, 1869. Came 
to Nebraska twenty-three years ago, and 
has made this state his home ever since. 
A member of the Masonic lodge. Home 
address Pawnee City, Neb. 




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WILLIAM HENRY HAYWARD 

"Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire." 
Arrived in the great centennial year at 
Nebraska City, Neb., April 29. Has lived 
in Nebraska all his life; is the son of Judge 
Hay ward; Captain of Co. C, 2d Regiment, 
Nebraska National Guard; right tackle 
Varsity foot ball team; and manager of 
the base ball team. President of the law 
class; member of Phi Delta Theta, Theta 
Nu Epsilon and Phi Delta Phi Fraternities. 





WARD HILDRETH 

"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his." 
Was found in his father's house July 10, 
1869, at Fowlerville, Mich. Came to Ne- 
braska in 1873. Claims relationship to 
Richard Hildreth, the historian. Scotch, 
English, and Danish descent. Graduated 
from the University of Nebraska, 1895, 
A. B. Member of the fraternities of Phi 
Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi 
Delta Phi. Address, Lincoln, Neb. 




ELBERT O. JONES 

"What can't be cnred mast be endured." 
First entertained his friends at Myron, 
la. , June 9, 1872. Blood is a mixture of 
Welsh and English. Claims relationship 
to Capt. John Smith and Noah. A mem- 
ber of the Palladian Literary Society. A 
contributor to the second edition of Amer- 
ican and English Encyclopedia of Law. 
Vice president Senior Law Class. Home 
address, Brandon, S. D. 



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DAVID LEWIS KILLEN 

"An eye like Mars to threaten or command." 

Was first noticed in Armagh, Pa., April 
23, 1870. Blood, red and Irish green. 
Prepared at Normal University. Degrees 
B.D. and B.S. A member of the Delian 
literary society and president of the same. 
Delegate to National Convention of Repub- 
lican College leagues in Chicago, 1896. A 
member of A.F. and A.M. Home address, 
Beatrice, Neb. 



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EMMA MADEEN 

"Man delights not me; no nor pictures either." 

Was born near Leonardville, Kansas, Au- 
gust 14, 1870. Descended from Swedish 
ancestry. For seven years taught in the 
schools of Nebraska. Took the Doane 
scholarship at Crete high school for highest 
class standing. Home address, Saronville, 
Nebraska. 



"When a woman 
will, she will, 

You may depend on't ; 

But when she won't, 
she won't, 

And that's the end 
on't." 



MAHLON FRITZ MANVILLE 

"The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind." 

Became a chose in possession at Shelby- 
ville, Missouri, November 4, 1871. Gets 
his black hair from his French Huguenot an- 
cestors and his amiable disposition from 
Puritan stock. Came to Nebraska in 1881, 
making his home at Crete; is a graduate of 
Doane College, A.B., 1893. A member of 
Phi Delta Phi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
fraternities. 




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BEN C. MATTHEWS 

"An angel, or if not, an earthly paragon," 

Was first admired at Sigour ney, Iowa, Oc- 
tober 10, 1871. Does not accuse any per- 
sonages of national repute as responsible 
for his existence. A graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, B.A. '95, M.A, '97. 
Was a member of Palladian Literary So- 
ciety. Home address, Kiowa, Kan. 



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WILLEY HERBERT MILLER 

' ' Confusion now hath niade his masterpiece. " 

The Chief Justice Miller, as we knew him, 
made his bow upon the stage of action Jan- 
uary 16, 1870, near Allison, Iowa. Traces 
his ancestors to before Revolutionary times. 
Blood, Dutch, English, and Irish. Regrets 
that his ancestors did not come over in the 
Mayflower. Home address, Franklin, Neb. 




CHARLES MOUSEL 

"The march of the human mind is slow," 

First breathed the breath of life at Belle- 
vue, Iowa, April 29, 1871. Germany and 
Ireland claim equal equities, the legal title 
being in the former. Prepared at Western 
Normal. President of senior law class 
third term, Present deputy county treas- 
urer of Frontier county, Neb. Home ad- 
dress, Cambridge, Neb. 



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• JESSE TUCK PARKER 

"Men of few words are the best men." 

Delighted his friends for the first time 
August 11, 1850, in Franklin county, Maine. 
Mr. Parker is able to trace his ancestry 
through eight generations, they coming 
from England to Massachusetts in the year 
1630. Prepared at Wesleyan University. 
Filled the office of county superintendent 
in Nebraska. A member of Delta Kappa 
Epsilon and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. 
Home address, Saint Paul, Neb. 




EMIL EDWIN PLACEK 

"He wears the rose of youth upon him." 

His genial smile was first seen at Milligan, 
Nebraska, as late as December ltt, 1877, 
at which place he has made his home all his 
life. Placek was a friend to every member 
of the class. His father was one of the 
first settlers of Fillmore county. Makes no 
claims upon any nationality except Bohemia. 




HILLIARD S. RIDGLEY 

"To be or not to be, that is the question." 

Was first seen at Siam, Iowa, October 16, 
1874. Has lived in Nebraska six years, 
making his home at North Platte. Has 
been engaged in the newspaper business. 
His blood is Aztec Indian and Dago, half 
of each. 




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GEORGE HAMPTON RISSER 

' ' None but himself can be his eqnal. " 
Was a resident of the college town of 
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the first several years 
of his life, having been born there on March 
20, 1877. Is of German and English de- 
scent. Like all members of this class is dis- 
tantly related to Sir William Blackstone- 
Prepared at University of Nebraska. Presi- 
dent of Maxwell Club first term of senior 
year, member of Sigma Chi and Phi Delta 
Phi fraternities. 



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JOHN DEYARMAN SMITH 

"I know everything except myself." 

Came to the assistance of his parents 
March 20, 1868, at Uniontown, Penn. His 
ancestors are of Dutch, Irish and French 
blood. A member of I. O.O. F. and Phi 
Delta Phi. Home address, Primghar, la. 









CHARLES YODER THOMPSON 

' ' Like a pond, still but deep. " 

Was born in the Keystone state in the city 
of Reading, October 17, 1876. Has made 
his home at West Point, Neb., most of his 
life. Scotch and Swiss blood. Prepared at 
Omaha high school. Secretary of senior 
law class. Member of Phi Delta Phi and 
Phi Kappa Psi. 



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SIDNEY M. TRUE 

"There is something rotten in the state of Denmark." 

This genial gentleman claims to have fa- 
vored the city of Lincoln by having selected 
it as the place of his birth, April 6, 1873. 
Has made his home for several years at Te- 
cmnseh, Neb. Is related to Li Hung 
Chang, Queen Lil, and Buffalo Bill; a mem- 
ber of Phi Delta Phi. 




ERNST FREDERICK CARL WARNER 

' ' Yon may relish him more in the soldier than in 
the scholar." 

Received the plaudits of an admiring public 

October 10, 1870, in the state of Wisconsin. 

Of course, his name indicates that he might 

be a Swede or Chinaman, but Warner claims 

to be pure German. If he is related to any 

famous personages, the Lord only knows, 

and he wont tell. Engaged in teaching 

school and in the banking business before 

entering the college of law. A Delian. 

Home address, Creighton, Neb. 




ALBERT SIDNEY WHITE 

"For I have that within which passeth show." 

Sid was a Christmas present to his parents 
in the year 187L Was born at Palmyra, 
Neb. , his present home address being South 
Omaha, Neb. Completed the sophomore 
year in the University of Nebraska. Presi- 
dent of the Athletic Association; a member 
of Phi Delta Phi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
fraternities, in both of which he has held 
the leading offices. 




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THE DTGEST 




CLEMENT LEACH WILSON 

' ; Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. " 

Became an ornament in the house of his 
parents, April 24, 1874, in the county of Ne- 
maha, Nebraska. Prepared at Johnson 
High School and Lincoln Normal Univer- 
sity. Is of Welsh and Dutch descent. A 
member of the Delian literary society, and 
like us all a member of the Maxwell club. 
Home address, Johnson, Neb. 




DENVER LOARING WILSON 

"But Lord! how he could kick." 

Did his first kicking at Clarington, Ohio, 
March 16, 1868. Is of English and Dutch 
blood, graduate of Western Normal College 
at Shenadoah, Iowa, degree B.D. Presi- 
dent of the Maxwell club, third term. 



FORMER MEMBERS. 

Newton D. Burch, Central City. 
David F. Burks, Fairbury. 
James R. Burks, Beatrice. 
James W. Chitwood, Macon. 
Wells M. Cook, Hartington. 
Edward C. Farmer, Madelia. 
Anthony G. Karpishek, Limvood. 
Frederick J. D. Lasby, Chester. 
Howard B. Haley, Crete. 
Jule Schoenheit. Lincoln. 
John E. Spaan, Orange City, Iowa. 
Edmund T. Sullivan, Harvard, 111. 
James H. Wallis, Paris, Idaho. 



Chancellor (Beorge <E. 2TTac£can, ££. D. 

Dr. George Edwin MacLean, the fifth Chancellor of the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, was born in Rockville, Conn., August 31, 
1850, son of Edwin W. MacLean and Julia H. (Ladd) MacLean. 
His father, a man of public spirit, was a successful merchant, 
postmaster of Rockville, a member of the I. O. O. F., and later a 
deacon of the Congregational church of Great Barrington, Mass. 

The earliest American representatives of the family settled in 
Hartford and Vernon, Conn. , before the Revolution. The gene- 
alogy in Scotland reaches back to the eleventh century with a 
legendary line for several centuries beyond. The Ladd family 
first came to this country in 1632. Dr. MacLean received his pre- 
paratory education in Westfield Academy and Williston Sem- 
inary, Massachusetts. He entered Williams College, from which 
he graduated in 1871. He completed a course of study at Yale 
Theological School in 1871, and accepted the pastorate of the 
Presbyterian and Congregational society in New Lebanon, N. Y. 

From 1877 to 1881 he was minister of the Memorial Presbyterian 
church, Troy, N. Y. Going abroad in the latter year he studied 
at the University of Leipzig until 1883, with the exception of 
two semesters at the University of Berlin. He devoted his at- 
tention especially to philology and history, Biblical exegesis, and 
old English literature. He collated several old English manu- 
scripts in the British Museum, Oxford, and Cambridge. 

He made the degree of Ph. D. at Leipzig. After an extended 
tour through Europe, he returned to the United States, and 
shortly thereafter accepted the chair of the English Language and 
Literature in the University of Minnesota. At the expiration of 
seven years' service he obtained a leave of absence, spending eleven 
months in studying in the British Museum, and in making cycle 
tours through England. Facilities were everywhere afforded 
him for becoming acquainted with English life and thought, es- 
pecially at the universities. He resumed the duties of his pro- 



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fessorship in December, 1892; but again in 1894 he began re- 
searches in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. In 1891 he was 
elected a member of the Philological Society of London, and 
also of the American Philological Society. He is also a member 
of the Modern Language Association, of the American Dialect 
Society, of the American Forestry Association, an honorary 
member of the Whig Society of the Princeton University, of the 
North American Bee Keepers' Association, and the Society of 
Electrical Engineers of the University of Nebraska. 

In 1895 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Wil- 
liams College, the same year in which he was elected Chancellor 
of the University of Nebraska. He is also Director of the United 
States Agricultural Experiment Station at the University, and 
during the summer of 1896 traveled in England, Holland, and 
Germany, studying the work done in the Stations in each country. 

Personally he is an agreeable man, and this, coupled with his 
abilities as a teacher and administrator, has distinguished him 
in the educational circles of Nebraska. In addition to numerous 
shorter articles and reviews, he has published "iElfric's Anglo- 
Saxon Version of Alcuini Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbyteri 
inGenesin," (Halle, 1883); "An Old and Middle English Reader " 
by Zupitza (Boston, 1886); "An Introductory Course in Old 
English," prepared by Professor Wilkin and K. C. Babcock 
(Minneapolis, 1891); "A Chart of English Literature with Refer- 
ences," which has passed through several editions, the last in 
New York and London, 1892; and "An Old and Middle English 
Eeader, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary" (New York and 
London, 1893). 

Dr. MacLean was married May 20, 1874, to Clara S. Taylor, a 
daughter of Charles J. Taylor, of Great Barrington, Mass. They 
have no children. 



3ubge Vttanoafy B. Heese, Dean 

"He was indeed the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves." 

Judge Manoah Bostic Reese, familiarly known as the good Dean, 
is a native of Illinois and was born in Macoupin county, September, 
5, 1839. His parents were not wealthy, and his early education 
was limited to the opportunities furnished by the district school in 
that, then, new and sparsely settled country. 

In 1856 his parents, with the family, moved to Clark county, 
Iowa, and located on a farm, where he remained until after he 
attained his majority. During this time he attended the public 
schools within his reach, and when about twenty-one years of age 
entered a seminary at Osceola, Iowa, Avhich he attended about two 
years. On the first day of January, 1862, he was married to 
Miss Carrie Burrows, formerly of Mooresville, Indiana. He en- 
listed in the army of the United States during the War of the 
Rebellion, but owing to an injury he had received in his youth he 
was not allowed to serve. 

Upon his return home he at once began the study of law in the 
office of Hon. James Rice at Osceola, Iowa. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1865 and immediately entered upon the practice, form- 
ing a partnership with his preceptor. 

In 1871 he removed to the State of Nebraska, finally locating at 
Wauhoo, in this state in 1871. In 1875 he was elected and served 
as a delegate to the constitutional convention which formed the 
present constitution of Nebraska. In 1876, 1878, and 1880, he was 
successively elected to the office of district attorney for the then 
fourth judicial district; and in 1883 he was elected as one of the 
judges of the supreme court of the state, holding the office for six 
years, during the last two of which he was the chief justice. His 
opinions while a member of the court were characterized by evi- 
dent fairness and strength, rather than by the elaborate marshal- 
ing; and discussion of authorities. 



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In 1801 Judge Reese was selected as lecturer upon the subject 
of Real and Personal Property in the college of law in the State 
University of Nebraska, and held that position until he was 
elected Dean of the college in 1893, which position he now holds. 

Judge Reese ranks among the leaders of the Nebraska bar, 
both as counsellor and advocate. He is popular, and respected 
by the bench and his professional brethren, and is strong with the 
people. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has 
served as Grand Master of that order in Nebraska. He is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and represented the Ne- 
braska Conference of that church in 1888 as a lay delegate to the 
General Conference held in the city of New York. 

Dean Reese is exceptionally well fitted for the position of trust 
that he holds, and his moral influence over the students is one of 
his strongest points. He is the idol of the students and is hon- 
ored and beloved by all of them without exception. As an in- 
structor he is energetic, patient, and entertaining. He strives to 
make the most difficult subject interesting and attractive, and his 
success in this direction is in no small manner due to the exten- 
sive fund of experience and illustration that he has to draw from. 






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Judge \v. w. Gi ffen 
Hon. w. S. Summers 



THE FACULTY. 

Prof. C. A. Robbins. Sec. 
Judge S \mii.i. M ixweli 
.) ctdge Jacob Fawcett 
Mk. B. F. Good 



Judge J. R. Webstkh 
.) odge Fb \nk Irvine 
Bon. .). C. Watson 
Dr. J. L. Greene 



Prof. Charles (X Hobbins 

Prof. Charles A. Bobbins, Secretary of the Law Faculty, was 
born at Abingdon, Knox county, 111., June 5, 1861. His father 
died when he was two years old, and as soon as he was old enough 
he worked in a brick-yard, on the farm, and in a store, during 
vacations, for means to attend school. He completed the course 
in the Abingdon High School, of which our present Congress- 
man, J. B. Strode, was principal, in May, 1876. In the fall of 
the same year he entered Hedding College, from which institu- 
tion he graduated in 1881, with the degree of Ph. B.. "rustling" 
— as he says — out of school hours and during vacations to pay 
his way through college. In 1881 he was awarded the degree of 
Ph. M. from the same college. 

After teaching school two years, Professor Bobbins entered 
Union College of Law (Northwestern and Chicago Universities) 
in the fall of 1883, and graduated therefrom in June, 1885, with 
degree LL. B. Although he clerked in a law office and taught 
night school while pursuing his law course, he received first prize 
scholarship both years, as well as first thesis prize. 

He remained in Chicago one year after graduation, clerking in 
the law office and writing for legal periodicals, and in 1886 came 
to Lincoln, Neb., where he has made his home since. He was 
married in January, 1889, to Miss Bertha Jones, of Abingdon, 
111. 

Professor Bobbins became connected with the College of Law 
in 1893, and is one of the hardest workers and most successful 
instructors in the Faculty. He is clear and logical, and has a 
forcible way of presenting things so that they make a deep and 
lasting impression upon the mind of the student. A hard worker 
himself, he insists on the students putting in full time while 
here, telling them that they can play after school is out. Al- 
though he has several other departments of instruction, his spec- 
ialties are Contracts, Commercial Paper, and Pleading. 



fjon. 3osepfy H. IDebster 

Joseph Rawson Webster was born May 5, 1839, near Bombay, 
India, of American parents abroad under passport. His parents 
returned to Victor, X. Y., in 1842, remaining there until 1816, 
when they removed to La Grange county, Indiana. Until his fif- 
teenth year he attended school in a log schoolhouse. He then at- 
tended the academy, the La Grange Collegiate Institute at On- 
tario, Ind., entered Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., in 
1858, and graduated in 1862, taking class honors. His youth was 
spent working on the farm and in a saw mill, and his recreation 
was the sports of a frontier life, hunting, and canoeing. 

In April, 1861, on the evening of President Lincoln's first call 
for three-month volunteers, he enlisted as private in Company I, 
11th Indiana Infantry, under Captain (afterwards General) Lew 
Wallace, serving in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia. At the ex- 
piration of his time he returned to college, and on graduating in 
1862 again enlisted. He was elected captain of Company G, 
88th Indiana Infantry, and subsequently was commissioned Major 
of the regiment. In 1861 he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the 
11th United States Colored Infantry, which regiment he raised 
and organized. Colonel Webster continued in active service 
uhtil 1866, when he resigned and engaged in cotton planting at 
Rosedale, Boliver county, Miss., until the spring of 1869. Dur- 
ing the service, between campaigns, he studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in July, 1869, at Glenwood, la. He located at 
Council Bluffs, la., but remained there only a few months before 
removing to Lincoln, Neb. 

In military service Col. Webster, besides many minor engage- 
ments, participated in the general battles of Chaplin Hills, Ken- 
tucky, October 8, 1862; Stone River, Tennessee, December 31 
to January 6, 1863; siege of Chattanooga; siege and battle of 
Nashville, Tenn., December 15-18, 1861. At the organization of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, he identified himself with it, 



20 HON. JOSEPH R. WEBSTER 

and is a member of Farragut Post, Lincoln, Neb. ; also of mili- 
tary order of the Loyal Legion, Department of Nebraska, and 
of the Society of Colonial Wars, council of District of Colum- 
bia. 

Judge Webster has always been an ardent republican, and has 
served the state in a civil as well as military capacity. As a 
member of the Board of Education he aided in hastening the erec- 
tion of permanent school structures, thus placing the educational 
system on a sound basis; as member of the city council he was 
active in advocating and adopting municipal ownership of water 
service and other municipal enterprises. In 1878-79 he was 
county judge of Lancaster county, and in 1873-74 Attorney Gen- 
eral of Nebraska. He has always taken a lively interest in social 
and municipal improvements and reforms, and in his profession has 
attained prominence as an able and widely informed lawyer. He 
was one of the organizers of the private law school under Dean 
Wm. Henry Smith, which preceded the present Law College; and 
at the organization of the University College of Law was made 
Lecturer in Equity Jurisprudence, which position he now holds, 

He was married in 1873 to Sara Cooper Thompson, of Lima, 
Ind. , and they have one child. He traces his ancestry back to 
John Webster, of Warwickshire, England, who immigrated to 
Connecticut before 1635, and was its Colonial Governor from 
1656-59. Judge Webster's father, in 1835, went in the service of 
the American Board of Foreign Missions to Bombay, in charge of 
its publishing house there, and while there assisted in publishing 
the Maharatta translation of the Bible. 



prof. S. £). Wilson 

Prof. Henrv H. TVilson was born January 1. 1854, near Fre- 
mont. Sandusky county. O. He came with his parents to Ne- 
braska in IS 71. and settled on a farm in Saunders county, near 
Ashland. Before coming to Nebraska, and from an early age, 
the care of his father's farm devolved chiefly upon him. but soon 
after coming- to this state he abandoned the farm and taught 
school for some time in the Platte valley. 

In 1873 he entered the State University, from which institution 
he o-raduated in 1878 with the degree of Ph. B., and in 1SS6 the 
degree of A. M. was conferred upon him . 

From the University he went to Seward. Xeb. . where he was 
principal of the high school for two years. It was during his 
stay at Seward that he began the study of law. Returning to 
Lincoln in 1880, and entering the office of a prominent attorney. 
he completed his preparation for the liar, to which he was admit- 
ted in 1881. Since that time he has been successively associated 
with the firms of Ricketts & Wilson in 1881, Lamb. Ricketts £ 
Wilson in 1882, and Rickets & ^Yilson again in 1892, of which 
latter firm he is at present a member. 

Professor Wilson has continued his interest in literary matters 
since leaving the University, and has at different times contrib 
uted prominently to the current magazines, articles both of a lit- 
erary and legal nature. He has occupied the chair of Lecturer 
on Evidence in the Law College since its formation, and in 1895 
was given the degree of LL. M. by the University. He is a 
member of the American Bar Association, and is chairman of the 
Committee on Legal Education of Commercial Lawyers* League 
of America. He is also a member of the bar of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, before which court he has appeared 
d several prominent cases. Although a Republican politically, 
he is a firm believer in the principles of Prohibition. 

Professor Wilson was married in June. 1882, to Miss Emma 
Parks. They have had a family of three children, two of which 
are living. 



3 u&ge. Samuel ZTlaxwell 

Hon. Samuel Maxwell, the Patriarch of the Nebraska bar, was 
born in New York State, May 20, 1826, at Lodi, a suburb of 
Syracuse. His father and mother were children of wealthy par- 
ents, and both were well educated. He received a common school 
education, but continued his studies for some time after leaving 
school. 

In 1844 he moved to Michigan, where he taught school several 
years, and in 1852 purchased a farm in Oakland county. He re- 
mained there until 1856, when he disposed of his property and 
moved to Nebraska, taking up a pre-emption near Plattsmouth. 
Having taken up the study of law some time prior to this, and 
feeling the need of a better opportunity for pursuing his study, 
he returned to Michigan in 1858, and entered the office of a 
prominent lawyer in Bay City. 

He was admitted to the bar in 1859, and immediately returned 
to Nebraska. Soon after his return he was elected delegate from 
Cass county to the first Republican Territorial Convention, and 
in October of the same year was elected Representative from 
Cass county to the Legislature. In June, 1864, he was elected 
delegate to the first Constitutional Convention. The convention 
met at Omaha, July 4, 1864, but adjourned sine die immediately 
after organizing, as it was evident that any constitution prepared 
would be defeated. 

In October, 1864, he was again elected to the Legislature, and 
was chairman of the judiciary committee, introducing the bill for 
the revision of the statutes. October, 1865, he was a third time 
elected a member of the House, and assisted in framing the Con- 
stitution of 1866. He was also a member of the first State Leg- 
islature, which met at Omaha, July 4, 1866, for the purpose of 
electing senators, and setting in operation the new state govern- 
ment. And in 1867 the Governor appointed him Commissioner 
to select the Capitol building and University lands. 



JUDGE SAMUEL MAXWELL 29 

About the } r ear 1870 he organized the First National Bank of 
Plattsmouth, with which institution he was connected for some 
time. 

In April, 1871, he was elected from Cass county to the second 
Constitutional Convention, which met in Lincoln in May of that 
year, and continued in session until the following September. 
He was chairman of the Committee on Suffrage, and was one of 
the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to collect the 
172,000 insurance for the burned Asylum at Lincoln, and adopt 
plans and erect a new building. 

In 1872 he was elected to the Supreme Court on the Republican 
ticket. The judges at that time were also judges of the District 
Courts, and Judge Maxwell was assigned by the Legislature 
to the third district — then comprising all the territory north of 
the Platte river except Douglas and Sarpy counties. In order to 
be more accessible to his district he moved to Fremont in 1873, 
where he has since resided. 

He was elected from Dodge county in 1875 to the third Con- 
stitutional Contention, and was chairman of the Judiciary Com- 
mittee. In the following October he was elected judge of the 
Supreme Court for the six-year term under the new constitution, 
and was again elected in 1881 and 1887. 

Judge Maxwell has also been an industrious author on the sub- 
ject of Procedure, and his works are authority in all the Code 
states. In 1877 he prepared a digest of the Nebraska Reports; 
and in 1879 published the first edition of his Practice in Justice 
Courts, which has now reached the sixth edition. In 1880 he 
published Pleading and Practice, which has also reached the sixth 
edition. He published Criminal Procedure in 1887, which has 
since passed another edition, and in 1892 his work on Code Plead- 
ing was published. 

He was elected Representative to Congress in 1896 on the Free 
Silver ticket. 

For several years he has held the chair of Lecturer on Code 
Pleading in the College of Law. Although Judge Maxwell has 
passed his three-score years and ten, he is still alert and active 
and is an indefatigable worker. 



£}on. §vank 3rr»tne 

Hon. Frank Irvine, of Omaha, who is the lecturer on Damages, 
is among the youngest men in the faculty. He was born in 
Sharon, Pa., September 15, 1858. In that state he spent his ear- 
lier years. These years must have been profitably spent for in 
1880 he graduated from Cornell with the degree of A.B. Three 
years later he took the degree of LL.B. at the National Univer- 
sity at Washington, D. C. He was then almost twenty-five years 
old and began his practice. Success seems to have followed him 
closely. From 1891 to 1893 he was district judge; and in 1893 
he was chosen Supreme Court Commissioner, which position he 
still occupies. 

He is a rather small, delicate appearing man with none of the 
adipose tissue supposed to be essential in judges and legal lumi- 
naries. His voice is appealing and persuasive. He evidently seeks 
to mould the opinions of his hearers by the logical force of his 
arguments and not after the manner of Aaron Burr who said 
"law is a proposition boldly set forth and plausibly maintained ". 

His opinions are highly esteemed for their nicety of discrimi- 
nation and keenness of analysis. Being thoroughly prepared for 
the practice of his chosen profession and with a natural bent to 
the solution of the problems afforded the judge, his opinions are 
logical, accurate, and of such a character as to reflect great credit 
upon the bar of the state. 



3ubge ID. £}. 2ttunger 

It is a compliment to the discrimination of the faculty of the 
College of Law, that a man who was chosen from among the 
members of the bar of the state to lecture on Municipal Corpora- 
tions should be later appointed to the eminent position now occu- 
pied by Mr. Munger. 

William Henry Munger was born in Bergen, N. Y. , September 
12, 1815. He spent his earlier years there and later studied law 
in Cleveland, Ohio. For many years he has practiced law in Ne- 
braska, his home being in Fremont. That he occupied a promi- 
nent position in that community is evidenced by the fact that he 
was chosen as a member of the Constitutional convention held in 
1875. 

He has never been at any time a politician, being content to 
practice the profession and that alone. By so doing he achieved 
the position as leader of the bar in that part of the state. He was 
a democrat in politics and during the last campaign was with the 
sound money wing of the democracy. February 19, 1897, Mr. 
Munger was confirmed as judge of the United States Court in 
the district of Nebraska. His appointment seems to have been 
very felicitous. Lawyers from every party congratulated him 
upon his success in life, and themselves that so able and fair a 
judge was to preside in the federal court. 

Judge Manger has reaped the rich reward of a man who works 
faithfully and presses toward the mark of his high calling. He 
has been preferred not on account of political service but as a 
compliment to his ability as a lawyer. 



fyon. 3ol?n <L Watson 

John C. Watson was born September 20, 1850, at St. Louis, 
Missouri. After completing his common school education he en- 
tered the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1873. 
Upon being admitted to the bar he located in Nebraska, and has 
made this state his home ever since, during which time he has 
established a wide reputation as an acute and able jurist. As a 
criminal lawyer he easily leads the Nebraska bar. 

In 1878 he was elected district attorney of the Second Judicial 
District, comprising the counties of Lancaster, Cass, Nemaha, 
and Otoe, serving four terms in that capacity. He was elected to 
the legislature in 1887, and in 1889 as float representative from 
Otoe and Cass counties was elected speaker of the house, in 
which capacity he achieved distinction as a parliamentarian. He 
was also re-elected to the house in 1891 and 1893. Under Presi- 
dent Harrison he was tendered the position of attorney general 
of Alaska, but declined the appointment. In 1891 he was elected 
to the state senate. 

Mr. Watson holds the chair of Lecturer on Criminal Law in 
the College of Law, which position he has held for five years. 
His home is in Nebraska City. 



^on. rDtlltam Vd. (Biffin 

The subject of this sketch was born December 14, 1853. in West- 
moreland county, Pennsylvania. His parents were both Ameri- 
cans: their ancestors for several generations having been natives 
of Pennsylvania. He received the common school education in 
his native county and attended Sewickley Academy at the same 
place. Later he also attended Knox College, Illinois. 

Judge Giffen is a graduate of the Law Department of the State 
University of Iowa, where he received the degree of LL.B. in 
1876. After coming to Nebraska he was four years county judge 
of York county. His present home is at Tecumseh, where he is 
a member of the law firm of Davidson & Giffen. He holds the 
chair of Lecturer on Wills, in the College of Law, which position 
he has held for some time and fills with credit. He is not a large 
man, but what he lacks in size he makes up in energy and serious, 
intense interest in his work. He is in love with his subject and 
always ready and anxious to explain the difficult points. 



3ubge Zacob §arocdt 

Judge Jacob Fawcett, lecturer on the Law of Insurance, was- 
born at Benton, LaFayette county, Wisconsin, April 9, 1847. 
He attended a country district school until the age of fourteen, 
but had none of the advantages of a high school or college educa- 
tion, as he enlisted in the army before he had attained his fifteenth 
birthday, and remained in the war till its close. He was wounded 
at Shiloh three days before he was fifteen. Before going into the 
army he had commenced to learn the trade of blacksmithing, and 
he took this occupation up as soon as he laid down his arms. Mr. 
Fawcett, at this time, began the study of law, working at his 
forge during the day and reading Blackstone by the light of the 
midnight oil. He was admitted to the bar in the same county 
where he had formerly plied his trade as a blacksmith. Before 
coming to Nebraska Judge Fawcett served four years in the city 
council of Galena, Illinois, and held numerous other positions of 
trust. He was elected judge in the fourth judicial district of Ne- 
braska November 5, 1895, which position he now holds. 



S)on. W. 5. Summers 

Hon. Williamson S. Summers, lecturer on Statutory Construc- 
tion, came to Nebraska in 1885. At the age of fourteen his par- 
ents settled in La Salle county, 111. , where he remained until taking 
his college course. He first attended Cornell University, and 
afterwards Iowa State Agricultural College, from which latter 
institution he graduated in 1884 with the degree of LL.B. After 
taking special courses in oratory in Chicago and Cincinnati, he 
took a course in law and political science at Ann Arbor. 

During vacations Mr. Summers studied law in the office of 
Duncan McDougall, of Ottowa, 111., and on coming to Nebraska 
began the practice of law in Beatrice. He immediately took 
great interest in the political movements in the state, and in 1886 
and every campaign since he has figured conspicuously as a cam- 
paign speaker. Mr. Summers was appointed as deputy Attorney 
General five years ago and while in that position attained con- 
siderable prominence before the state. 

He always encourages the students by his announcement that 
the subject of Statutory Construction is one of the dryest and 
most abstract of subjects, and that it is only endured because of 
the absolute necessity of mastering it. After this announcement 
they are in such a frame of mind that if surprised at all it must be 
an agreeable surprise. 



8. 5. (Boob 

Mr. B. F. Good was born April 2, 1860, near Bloomfield, Iowa, 
where he resided until 1882. Supplementary to a thorough com- 
mon school education, he attended the Southern Iowa Normal 
School, from which institution he graduated in 1882. In this 
same year he entered the State University of Iowa, taking a 
special course in history and languages, and graduating from the 
law department of the university in 1885 with the degree of LL. B. 

In August of 1885 Mr. Good came to Nebraska and settled at 
Wahoo. He formed a partnership with Mr. E. E. Good and 
immediately took up the practice of law at that place. He has 
made Wahoo his home during his entire residence in Nebraska, 
and the firm of Good & Good has become well known to the legal 
fraternity of the state. 

For five years Mr. Good has held the position of leturer on 
"Limitations of Actions," and has become deservedly popular 
in that somewhat abstruse, but very important branch of the law. 
He was married in June, 1890, to Miss Jennie Jessen, of Ne- 
braska City, and they have two children. His ample good nature 
is accounted for by the fact that, as he says, "His father and 
mother were Irish, and he is Irish too." Although never aspir- 
ing to political prominence, he takes great interest in the move- 
ments of the day, and is a firm believer in the principles of 
democracy. 



Dr. 3ames £. (Sreene 

Dr. James L. Greene was born at Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1861, 
of American parentage. He remained in his native state until 
1890, since which time he. has resided in Nebraska. His education 
was pursued in the common and high schools of Morgan county, 
Indiana, until the fall of 1880. He then taught in the country and 
graded schools of that county and studied medicine during 
vacations. 

Soon after this he went to the University of Vermont where he 
attended the full course of lectures in the medical department and 
graduated from the University in June, 1881. In the examina- 
tions for degrees he stood fourth, out of a class of one hundred 
and twenty-six. 

Dr. Greene began practicing medicine immediately after com- 
pleting his education, and remained at Morgantown, Indiana, un- 
til coming to Nebraska in 1890, and locating at University Place. 

In April, 1893, Dr. Greene was appointed physician at Norfolk 
Hospital for the Insane, where he remained until June, 1895, at 
which latter time he received the appointment of first assistant 
superintendent in the Nebraska Hospital for the Insane, at Lin- 
coln. After holding this position for a few months, he resigned 
in order to take up his practice again, since which time he has 
given special attention to diseases of the mind and nervous 
system. 

Although this is the first year that Dr. Green has been con- 
nected with the law school, his lectures were very popular. The 
subject of his lectures is Insanity — from the medical standpoint 
alone. 



VTiis. 2Ttary D. UTanning 

MRS. MARY D. MANNING, instructor 
in oratory for the College of Law, is a grad- 
uate of the Boston School of Oratory from 
i|i which institution she was graduated in 1884. 

At that time Dr. R. R. Raymond was dean 
sjT of the school. During the following year 

she took a graduate course in the same in- 
: stitution, and in 1886 studied under Prof. 
T. Brown, formerly professor of oratory 
I at Tufts college. Mrs. Manning became 

L .' .:..,. L ! connected with the University of Nebraska 

as instructor in oratory and elocution in 
1894, which position she still retains. During the summer of 
1895 she studied with Mrs. Laura Y. Tindale, of Chicago, and the 
coming summer expects to visit New York and Boston to spe- 
cialize in oratory and the philosophy of expression. She is an en- 
thusiastic worker in her chosen field, and seeks always to be 
abreast of the times in her subject. 




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<3s We VOevc 

To tell all the happenings, during our junior year, which might 
be of interest, would certainly be a task of no small magnitude. 
I will content myself, therefore, with simply noting a few of 
those incidents as they come to 'my mind, which seem to stand out 
more conspicuous than the rest. 

The junior law student, take him all in all, is an interesting 
personage to dwell upon. He is an ambitious individual. His 
mark is high, his aspirations know no bounds. He has perused 
the lives of a few great men at least, which remind him that he 
may also make his life sublime, and so he comes to the scene of 
action, enters the great field of law, begins the arduous task of 
mastering the broadest and noblest profession known to man, 
with a confidence of ultimate success that must be amazing to the 
old practitioner who has served the bar and bench from a quar- 
ter to a half century, and who knows better even than a Senior 
the multitude of intricate problems and principles that necessar- 
ily must confront every beginner, to test his metal, try his nerve, 
and prove his knowledge and skill in the law before he can be 
assured of even a reasonable degree of success. Well it is that 
the storm signal, indicating the coming of conflicting opinions, 
the clashing of authorities, and last but not least the final examin- 
ations, is to him obscured in the distance, else he might grow 
weary and faint at heart at the very beginning. Again, well it 
is for him that these dangers are plainly visible to the good Dean, 
who has ever the happy faculty of presenting them to the stu- 
dents of his class, with profuse illustrations, just in time to avoid 
disastrous results, to say nothing of fatalities. 

The class entered upon the study of Blackstone, as soon as school 
opened, and there some of us found sufficient food for thought to 
keep us awake nights; for the diet was so strong, and it was given 
in such liberal doses, that new patients invariably had to take it 
with a little mixture of mid-night oil in order to digest well. But 
as there is an end to all things, so in the course of human events 



AS WE WERE -±1 

we finally laid aside Mr. Justice Blackstone's commentaries, and 
at the request of the Dean, attempted to write a short treatise on 
the common law of England ourselves, from memory, under 
sixty odd headings, and covering more or less the entire subject. 
It is needless to say that we furnished the Dean with some very 
valuable reading matter, touching the questions propounded to 
us, the perusal of which must have occupied his spare moments 
for a considerable time thereafter. 

I doubt very much if ever again in the career of the law student 
there comes a time when he thinks he knows so much law as after 
having passed a creditable final examination in Blackstone. 

In connection with the study of the common law of England we 
took up Domestic Relations. I need not emphasize here that this 
was a very interesting subject, for so much will be presumed. 
Here we learned the theory of marriage making, the legal effect 
of marriages that are made, and how unhappy couples may dis- 
solve the matrimonial ties. In theory there are three general re- 
quisites to make a marriage: first, that the parties have a will 
to marry; second, that they can marry; and third, that they actu- 
ally do marry. But in practice it seems that any one of the three 
is abundantly sufficient, for we know that if the parties have a 
will to get married that settles it, or if they can marry they are 
bound to do so, or if they really do marry it matters little in prac- 
tice whether they can or will. 

Contracts were taken up the second term and the almost in- 
finite number and variety of transactions into which the subject 
enters were fully elucidated by Professor Robbins. It was 
sometimes rather difficult to see just where there was a meeting 
of minds, or to understand what constituted the good or valuable 
consideration in a particular contract, but at those times liberal 
faith in the author or instructor very often had quite a material 
tendency to relieve us of all doubts in the premises. Agency, a 
subject closely allied to contracts, was also covered during the 
second term, and the doctrine of doing an act by another which a 
party might do by himself, or being held accountable for the act 
of another the same as if done by himself, received due consider- 
ation. It is by the application of this principle of agency that a 
party may sometimes be said to have acquired knowledge without 



4:2 THE DIGEST 

study, or in other words, knowledge ma}^ be imputed to him 
which he does not in fact possess, provided it is in the mind of his 
agent, for knowledge in the agent is knowledge in the principal. 
Though agency is a proper subject for discussion in the class 
room, it seems to be improper for a student to exemplify the 
principle of it while he is reciting or during the time he is taking 
examinations, for these acts, according to the weight of authori- 
ties, cannot be done through the employment of an agency. But 
upon this question the opinions are by no means harmonious, and 
upon principle it is difficult to reconcile them. The better rule, 
however, and that which has been followed by our department, is 
the one stated above. 

Other subjects treated of during the Junior year and which 
came in for their full share of the time, were Sales, Bailments 
and Carriers, Partnership, Criminal Law, and Notes, Bills, and 
Checks, but as my space in this volume is limited, and my time 
for writing this article is borrowed, it must suffice to make mere 
mention of them here. Special lectures on such important sub- 
jects as Insurance, Police Powers, Water Rights, Cases and how 
to find them, were given by leading attorneys and judges of the 
state, during the year, and note books prepared and handed in 
for inspection and approval. 

The Juniors commenced to hold moot court trials among them- 
selves as early as before the Christmas holidays, and continued 
them during the year, having a case docketed about once in every 
two weeks, at times oftener. Usually some one of the seniors 
would sit as judge when the trial was had, and then it was that the 
Juniors envied him not a little in his exalted position. In this 
connection N. D. Burch, a junior, on the list of those who 
dropped out, deserves special mention for instituting, arranging 
and being more or less connected with nearly all these trials. He 
would bring an action against a fellow student on the slightest 
pretext, and prosecute to the full extent of the law. 

During the spring term each Junior, as a part of the regular 
course, had to prosecute or defend a case in justice moot court, 
based upon a statement of testimony furnished by Professor C. A. 
Robbins. These cases as a rule were well worked up and the 
Juniors took considerable pride in winning them. 



as We an. 

Brilliant October weather greeted us when we descended upon 
Lincoln at the beginning of the Senior year. There were greet- 
ings between friend- who had not met since the previous June. 
Lies were "swapped" and wonderful vacation tales were told. 

We were all bulging with political news from our own partic- 
ular sections of the country. Jones was morally certain that Mc- 
Kinley would sweep Idaho in November. John DeYarman Smith, 
who had returned, together with his name, from Iowa, took Sun- 
dry and several of his friends into quiet corners and told them to 
bet their simoleons that Bryan would go out of the Hawkeye 
state with seventy thousand majority. Sid. White, who had evi- 
dently been associating with a gang of ward heelers in South 
Omaha, appeared resplendent in a "loud" suit and a bright red 
necktie, and offered to bet 85,000 that the champion of silver 
would carry Nebraska. Flaherty was back with his expansive 
upper lip and his Hibernian cast of countenance. Most of the 
old boys drifted in and our erstwhile lone girl (God bless the girls!) 
found solace in the presence of another one of the emancipated to 
keep her company on the front seats. 

When we looked over the "large and intelligent audience" that 
greeted Professor Wilson at his first lecture we discerned a lot of 
new faces. Greenfield had come from Lexington with his popu- 
listic ideas and his insane desire to wear low shoes regardless of the 
weather. Hassler had walked in from Pawnee City and brought 
with him a pair of glasses and a ministerial expression which 
never left him. Frank Brown answered "present" the first 
afternoon and hasn't said a word since. Babcock, Carr, Creigh, 
Goodner, Gates, Green, Parker, Ridgley, True, and Wallis also 
shed the light of their countenance upon us for the first time. 
But this history is not the leap year edition of a country weekly 
and I shall not enumerate at length the numerous virtues of our 
charming new comers. 

The term started off beautifully. Professor Wilson, after the 



44 THE DIGEST 

first roll-call of his class in Evidence, explained at great length 
that he was teaching the most important branch of the law, and 
that no student could hope to be a bright star in the legal firma- 
ment unless he firmly grasped the principles about to be eluci- 
dated. The next day Professor Robbins, in Common Law Plead- 
ing, fixed us with his ea^le eye and told us that no study in the 
curriculum was half so important as the one we were then be- 
ginning. Judge Webster occuiped the instructor's desk on 
Friday. The Judge carefully wiped his spectacles, smiling be- 
nignly as he did so. Then he said, "Young ladies and gentle- 
men, I but voice the sentiment of all great lawyers when I say 
that Equity transcends in importance all other departments of 
juridical learning. I trust you will realize this and give Equity 
the attention it deserves." 

We at once felt that grave responsibilties rested on our should- 
ers and we began our work with great vigor. How could we 
feel or act otherwise when we were engaged upon three studies 
each of which was more important than any other ? 

After the year was fairly begun we found much to keep us 
busy. The presidential campaign was on and was fully as ab- 
sorbing as the excellent works of Bispham and Stephen. Some 
of the class and a large part of the faculty pretended to study 
law during the day and made political speeches at night whenever 
and wherever crowds could be found patient enough to listen to 
them. The joint debate between the sound money and Bryan 
clubs of the University attracted its share of attention, since three 
of the four speakers were from the Law College. Interesting as 
the campaign was, its results caused no deaths in the class .and 
the vocal organs of the Dean and Professor Bobbins and Flahi^ty 
gradually returned to their normal condition. 

With one exception the class elections, which are usually 
events of great interest, attracted comparatively little attention. 
The election at the beginning of the year, when Smith beat Wil- 
lis for president by the narrow margin of one vote, caused a rip- 
ple of excitement but succeeding meetings of the class were very 
peacable. 

Should I fail to mention the December election of the Maxwell 
club the omission would never be forgiven. Few of us will ever 



AS WE ARE 45 

forget the eagerness with which the barbs dug ballots out of the 
waste basket, or the pained surprise apparent on the faces of the 
frats when they witnessed the hostile demonstrations of their oppo- 
nents. For weeks the two factions struggled for possession of the 
presidential chair. The daily papers of the city teemed with news 
of the conflict, and the college publications added their voices to 
the tumult. Finally the chancellor, fearful that the janitor would 
some morning find the law room slippery and sloppy with gore, 
prorogued the club until the end of the semester, and sweet Peace 
fluttered back from the mountains where she had been sojourning 
in fear and trembling. 

The course of the Twenty-fifth Nebraska Legislative session was 
followed with more or less interest. The bookkeeper of the sen- 
ate was taken from the class, and several alumni of the University 
held positions either as members or officers of the upper and lower 
houses. Then, too, our attention was attracted by the large num- 
ber of fresh bills, which the teeming brains of our legislators 
brought forth. The anti-fraternity bill, the anti-football bill, 
and the bill to change the requirements for admission to the bar 
will probably never be excelled as monumental curiosities. 

The year has not been remarkable for startling occurrences. 
But, as the apparently insignificant happenings are cherished 
longest in the memory and remain to comfort us after more stir- 
ring events are forgotten, it may be well to recall a few of the 
little things which have made us laugh during the months just 



Who of us will ever forget Flaherty's announcement that "a 
bill of revivor was filed when a former complainant was laboring 
under death or other disability," the "other disability," of course, 
being marriage. 

The reply of Placek to the carefully worded question of Judge 
Reese as to whether a certain transaction constituted a mortgage 
or conditional sale will probably never be excelled. Mr. Placek 
thought the question over and then replied, " Yes, sir, I think it 
would." 

We have all preserved for future use the two little narratives of 
the Dean in regard to the man who fell out of bed because he 
" slept too close to the place where he got in at," and the remark- 



46 THE DIGEST 

able rirle ball that pierced seven feet of solid steel by reason of 
the unusual powers of concentration. 

True will always remember the afternoon when he gallantly es- 
corted Judge Webster's daughter into the equity class and smil- 
ingly sat down beside her, only to have the Judge read him an 
extended lecture a few minutes later. 

If we live a thousand years the picture of the real property 
class will remain fresh in the galleries of memory. I can shut 
my eyes now and see the Dean, as from day to day he despairingly 
looked over the aggregation of hopeless imbecility before him, 
and strove in vain to detect some evidence of intellect and under- 
standing in the students who received his explanations of legal 
principles with vacant and meaningless stares. In years to come 
the Real Property class of this year will be referred to as a com- 
pany of flunkers who won their championship through sheer ig- 
norance and clung to it with a grip like grim death. 

But enough of these filmy nothings. As the year draws to a 
close we are beginning to see how valuable the weeks spent here 
have been to us, and we appreciate, as never before, the efficient 
corps of instructors who have labored so faithfully to make some- 
thing presentable out of the crude material that Providence has 
thrown in their way. If we don't set the world afire it will not 
be the fault of the faculty. They have done their duty. It only 
remains for us to do ours. 




political Snap Shots 



If the members of '97 were followers of Brahma and believed 
that their ultimate end was a condition in which they should be 
alike and thus become re-absorbed into Brahma, their political views 
would be very seriously in the way, and the ideal state could only 
be obtained by a very rigorous course of asceticism. 

Nearly every political party in the heavens above or the earth 
beneath or the waters under the earth, has its followers in the 
class from the gold democrats, by Green, to the woman's suffra- 
gists, by Babcock, and the old adage that "great minds run in the 
same channel " is proven to be false. The political personnel of the 
class is about the following; republicans, twenty-one; silver re- 
publicans, three; democrats, six; gold democrats, one; populists, 
four. However, the members do not agree with their respective 
parties entirely upon the leading questions. On the question of 
protection and free trade, twenty-three favor the first and eleven 
the latter. On the money question the members are hard to clas- 
sify — as hard for themselves as for the writer. Twenty-two are 
bimetallists, live are mono-metallists, and the other eight are un- 
decided but take their stand unqualifiedly on the St. Louis plat- 
form. Their reasons for their beliefs are such as would make Mc- 
Kinley or Bryan turn green with envy. Here are a few; Gates. 
"I am for gold because we read in the good Book 'And Aaron 
made unto the children of Isreal a golden calf and set it up before 
them and they fell down and worshipped it.'" Goodner, ; ' I be- 
lieve in the eternal principles laid down by our forefathers that 
' all men are created free and equal." White, ' * I am for silver be- 
cause it is and has been the money of the Chinese for the last ten 
thousand years." Parker, "I am a believer in the New Testament, 
and is it not written that Judas sold his master for thirty pieces 
of silver, proving beyond a doubt that silver has always been rec- 
ognized as money?" Jones, "I am a believer in bimetallism, 
L — 1 mean a mono-metal list, "—well, I stand on the St. Louis 



48 THE DIGEST 

platform. D. L. Wilson, "Shakespeare has Iago say to Rod- 
erigo, 'Put money in thy purse': now it is evident since the spa- 
cific gravity of gold is greater than that of silver that he did not 
mean for Laertes to carry the heavier metal about with him but 
the lighter hence we have the great authority of Shakespeare on 
the side of silver with many authorities which I might mention 
chief among which I am whom." 

Woman's suffrage has received more or less attention, as it 
should, from the bright intellects of the embryo lawyers. Seven- 
teen are in favor of women receiving no franchise whatever, and, 
strangely enough, the married men are all on this side; while 
twelve think women should receive even and equal rights with 
men. Six of the younger members, Creigh, Flaherty, Manville, 
C. O. Brown, Hassler, and Thompson, say they have not had time 
to think the matter over and prefer to give no opinion. 

A few of the reasons given are so philosophical that they should 
be included. Miss Goff, "I do not believe specially in woman's 
right's but human rights. Women are human and therefor it fol- 
lows, as the night the day, that they should receive the same 
rights." F. E. Brown, "I have always thought that, 

' ' Nil sine magno 
Vita labore dedit mortatibus." 

Coleman, " I believe that sweet, gentle woman, she with the syl- 
phan form and eyes of heavenly light — she whose image is ever 
before me, sleeping or waking — is far too frail and fragile to 
have the cumbrous affairs of state thrust upon her to weary her 
delicate sensibilities and therefore I discountenance it. If she 
should ever be placed before the ballot box with a ballot in her 
hand I should feel justified to declare in the words of the poet: 

No more will I endure love's pleasing pains, 

Or 'round my heart's leg tie his galling chain. — Selah. 

Placek, "I don't know that I am much opposed to suffrage my- 
self, but 

"Meine mutter hat's gewollt, 
Dasz ich anders denken sollt." 

Hay ward, "If we were to allow women to vote they would all 
get to wearing bloomers, so I am opposed to it." 

Carr, "Paul says 'women obey your husband,' and I am afraid 



POLITICAL SNAP SHOTS 19 

suffrage would be prolific of much domestic trouble, therefore I 
oppose it." 

If General Colby concludes to go to Cuba to fight for "Cuba 
libre " he will do well to establish a recruiting station near the 
University, so the warlike disciples of Blackstone may have an 
opportunity to enlist. Six members of the class, only, are in 
favor of allowing the dusky Cubans to fight out their own salva- 
tion. Twenty-three are in favor of the United States interfering 
and compelling Spain to withdraw, while the other six, headed 
by the little Miles Standish of the class, Matthews, are in favor 
of Uncle Sam's simply taking the island for his own. Says 
Matthews: "Give me ten such men as Mousel and Gustin, arm 
us with six-shooters such as Buffalo Bill uses, give us a butcher 
knife and a skillet apiece, and fifteen years' provisions and I'll 
guarantee to run Weyler and his hirelings into the sea or worry 
them to death." He continues: "The great drawback to an en- 
ergetic campaign in Cuba is a species of quasi- vertebrata known 
as the rana catesbiana, which in the daytime betake themselves to 
the fastnesses of the mountains and the marshes and in the night, 
under cover of the darkness find their way into the camp of the 
soldiers and swallow half-a-dozen apiece. This is very discour- 
aging to the soldiery and hinders much. Then sickness did ham- 
per the Spaniard a good deal, but Weyler's 4 trochas ' have 
almost overcome that." Miss Madeen makes a suggestion which 
savors of the practical. " Why not," she says, " trade the west- 
ern portion of Nebraska and Kansas for Cuba and then raise 
sugar beets and populists down there. It would save us two very 
expensive luxuries at home and put the island to a good use." 
Kisser, True, Kidgeley, and Miller discussed the question care- 
fully and evolved this: "The United States should annex Cuba 
and then endeavor to establish a sort of a reciprocity in a trade 
of ice cream and palm leaf fans. Just think of it! We could get 
fans for half a cent apiece if it were not for the tariff which we 
pay. And then the increased exportation of milk and cream 
would encourage the farmers to raise more cows and put in more 
pumps, thus increasing our business, giving employment to 
thousands of idle men, women, and children, and resulting ulti- 
mately in a restoration of confidence and giving to the McKinley 
administration an opportunity to redeem its pledges." 



(Dm {Lfying anb Qnotfyer 

Xo one will deny that life with the law student is a serious 
matter. Every one has noticed that while other students hasten 
to their daily duties with flying feet, the disciple of Blackstone ap- 
proaches the Pierian spring with measured step and slow. If 
you search in the domain of society for these persons the return 
of non est inventus must be made. Do you wonder that a man 
borne down with the burden of the law seeks no relaxation in 
society? These embryo jurists have learned that life is a series 
of contracts express or implied, and he that would avoid serious 
complications must walk circumspectly. Some have learned this 
from books, others in the stern school of experience. Here and 
there are married men who, like Goodner, assert that marriage is 
not, as Mr. Bobbins says, a civil contract but a simple one. 

Almost all of us have learned that he who follows in the train 
of society, and strives to keep pace with the flying fashions has 
neither strength to handle the ponderous tomes nor time in which 
to seek principles deftly concealed therein. 

But despite such solemnity we have had pleasures. In the 
hurry of life many things have been forgotten (we learned that 
in the real property examination); but a few still cling to us. 
Who can recall the answers of Dad Coleman, often more ingenious 
than accurate, without wishing that a phonographic record had 
been kept? C. L. Wilson, from "down on the Nemahaw " 
nearly bankrupted the Merchants Hotel during his first week in 
town, but balanced the account by being sick three days as a re- 
sult of his voracity. 

' ' Chief Justice " Miller, the man who always ' ' knew of several 
real cases like that down home," furnished the most "clear, 
cogent, succinct, and persuasive" reasons for his studying law. 
The exposure to the elements while in the grocery business (he 
drove the wagon), coupled with a predisposition to lung trouble, 
led him to choose the law that he might always be near the stove. 



ONE THING AND ANOTHER 51 

Mr. Placek achieved renown as the greatest humorist. It 
seemed to be spontaneous with him. The "good Dean," desir- 
ing to draw from him the idea of relationship by blood, and Mr • 
Placek being rather refractory, asked him what it was that sup- 
ported the body and ramified the very extremities from the 
orown of his head to the soles of his feet. Placek, equal to the 
emergency, responded "bones." 

Sid White was a mixture in equal parts of Dave Hill and Tom 
Piatt. He carried with him a mellifluous horse laugh which he 
used in all jokes. It was his chef-d'oeuvre. The slightest ap- 
proach to humor on the part of the lecturer would be heralded 
by a sound like a horse fiddle at a charivari, and every one knew 
that Sid White was encouraging the lecturer. 

Dr. Greene in one of his lectures, told of a certain variety of 
feminine hysteria which commenced with a constriction of the 
waist. F. E. Brown, who seldom volunteered anything, an- 
nounced that he knew of just such a case here in Lincoln. He 
claims it is only by hearsay. 

Mr. Gustin is far from being conservative and sought to be- 
come famous by his innovations in procedure, in which he had no 
small body of followers. Having learned in common law plead- 
ing what a departure is, he sought to introduce a new form into 
equity. It was a departure in the nature of an exit by the win- 
dow. This was overruled by the court as being in the nature of 
a surprise. 

Mr. True was once asked what was the difference between a 
general and a special demurrer. His response was, "It differs 
only in the words." He claimed this result was reached by his 
mathematical mind after long hours of study. 

We all had our failings upon one occasion when we unani- 
mously asserted that under the enlightened practice of the 
United States it was not only lawful, but it was highly advan- 
tageous for a man to marry his widow's sister — provided she 
would have him. 

Ignorantia legis neminem excused. If any of us succeed in be- 
ing admitted to the bar it will be because the maxim has failed 
and ignorance of the law has excused us. 



prophecy 



The sagacious prophet founds his revelation upon carefully 
considered judgment. He may pretend that he derives inspira- 
tion and information from supernatural sources, but all his pre- 
tences are so thin that a man with a hoodwink over his eyes can 
see through them. I have never been specially favored of the 
gods, because the gods evidently don't consider that I am " their 
class of people. 7 ' I possess no gift of second sight. I have only 
limited faculties, and they are all required to keep me out of the 
county jail and the insane asylum. I never look into magic 
mirrors, because I looked into an ordinary mirror ones and the 
sight I beheld gave me lung disease. I have never stopped 
Father Time in a dark alley and asked him to divulge his secrets. 
He will overtake all of us soon enough anyway, and I can see no 
good to be obtained by following him about. 

The little forecasts given here are based upon my acquaintance 
with the individuals for whom they have been prepared. Every 
person shows certain traits, certain inclinations, and certain tastes 
and desires, which indicate the path he will tread. I have 
founded the opinions, which I here give to the world, upon a care- 
ful and prolonged study of the leading characteristics of my 
classmates. 

Abbott will never make a lawyer. He is too neat and doesn't 
talk enough. He will find his niche in life as proprietor of 
a steam laundry. In that business he will be able to turn out 
nice white clothes, and between deliveries he can sit at a mahogany 
desk and quietly consider the prices charged for renovating pillow 
shams and socks. 

Sabcock is too much of a gentleman to follow the legal profes- 
sion. The profession of floor-walker in a milliner}' store will 
claim him as its own. His soothing voice will come into excel- 
lent use in an emporioum where the fair sex congregate. 



PROPHECY 53 

F F. Brown will make a good driver for a dray. His voice 
is harsh and grating, and if it fails to get action out of a pair 
-of ossified sorrel males, everything will fail. During the past 
year the professors have frequently cautioned Brown against 
his vociferousness in class. It would be a grievous wrong should 
so roisy a human being be forced into the quiet of a law office. 

Garr. — The obscurity of the pastorate of some country 
church yearns for Carr. His benevolent expression and his 
bald head would be out of place in halls of justice. As a coun- 
try preacher he can listen to the troubles of old women and the 
confidences of young men. He can officiate at weddings and 
christenings and shed pearls of wisdom along life's highway. 
Would that I had Carr's future before me. 

Greigh will make a nice waiter for a summer hotel. He has an 
erect bearing that fits him for carrying trays, and his sweet ways 
will be very efficacious in coaxing tips from the pockets of opu- 
lent guests. The law hates to lose him, but the summer hotel i s 
deserving of something good, and it will get that something when 
it £:ets Creigh. 

Coleman will travel with a circus as ' ' Signor Garanello, the 
Iron Jawed Man." He has overworked his jaw to such an ex- 
tent that great ridges of muscle cover his lower maxillary. 
" Dad " will look very pretty in red tights. People should travel 
miles and miles on horseback and on foot to see him. 

Flaherty has a fortune before him as a vender of Brazilian 
corn salve and Japanese headache cure. His unusual flow of lan- 
guage, his adamantine gall, and his rotund countenance will win 
him immediate success in any community where he shows his 
remedies. 

Goodn&r is much too honest to join the wranglers who inflict 
the bench and bar. He will doubtless become an evangelist. His 
smooth shaven face, his gold-bowed glasses, and his general air 
of sincerity will make him a power in calling sinners to repent- 
ance. He should till the front benches nightly. 

Gates. — A man who can predict anything of Gates will have to 
be a seventh son of a seventh son. Jesse shows such unusual 
taste and so many freaks of disposition that I acknowledge my- 
self baffled when I try to outline his future. For instance, he 



54 THE DIGEST 



here, he has appeared in an outfit of black. What can one say' 
of a man who acts like that? 

Goff. — A good many famous people have already come out of 
Nebraska, and many more celebrities will go out from this state 
in the future. Miss Goff will be one of them. There is no ques- 
tion as to her succeeding Susan B. Anthony as national presi- 
dent of the W. A. W. S. A., when Susan finally lays down this 
life's burdens. 

Greenfield will make a good newspaper editor. His unlimited 
capacity for prevarication and his cheerful optimism under all 
circumstances will make him an ideal occupant of the editorial 
tripod. 

Gustin will be satisfied with nothing less than a United States 
district attorneyship. His keen legal insight will stand him in 
good stead in the important battles he will be compelled to wage 
for Uncle Samuel. 

Green ought to make a good plasterer or hod carrier. He has 
tried everything else and failed and he ought to succeed at 
something. 

Sassier is designed for the impecunious father of a large family. 
He is just the kind of a mild mannered man who always has a 
crowd of ragged youngsters clinging to his coat-tails and no 
bread with which to feed them. This is rather a gloomy prog- 
nostication for Hassler but it is the best I can do for him. 

Hildreth will develop into a botanist. His gentle ways ought 
to make him a great favorite with the flora of this whirling 
sphere. His glasses, his nicely brushed clothes, his unostenta- 
tious manners, all show him to be a lover of nature. He does 
violence to his tastes when he studies law. 

Hayward will make an exceptional baggage smasher. He is 
big and brawny and strong. He is able to pickup a trunk, bring- 
it down on a depot platform and send its contents careening down 
Nebraska's playful zephyrs. I cannot understand why a young 
Hercules like Hayward persists in studying law. 

Jones will doubtless drift back into the business he left when he 
entered the law school, that of train boy on a through freight. 



PROPHECY 00 

The work is not arduous and Jones will doubtless make a success 
of it in the future as he has in the past. 

Kitten will become a butcher. His ample feet, generous hands, 
and massive arms betoken a man who has the ability to throw an 
obstreperous steer against a slaughter house door and break his 
neck. Killen will master the mysteries of pickled pig's feet and 
liver sausage much easier than he has solved the problems con- 
tained in Blackstone and Tiedeman. 

Jladeen. — Miss Madeen will find her law of little value. She 
will marry and become the mother of a luxuriant family. She 
will be queen of a household rather than an advocate at the bar 
of an unfeeling court. 

Manville is such a pretty boy that he will find his true sphere 
only when he disgraces the Vaudeville stage by warbling (?) 
comic songs and winking at the pretty girls in his audiences 
across the footlights. 

Matthews has a successful future awaiting him as a church jan- 
itor. He glides about in such an unobtrusive manner and speaks 
in tones so low and even that he will be an ideal man to raise and 
lower windows during religious services, and to examine thei- 
mometers and whisper the results of his observations to the dea- 
cons in the front pews. 

Miller Avill be pleased to learn that the attorney generalship of 
the great commonwealth of Nebraska awaits him. He has devel- 
oped a belligerent disposition by long service as sargeant-at-arms 
of the Maxwell club, and this, together with his unusual legal acu- 
men, should win him prodigious success as a prosecuting officer. 

Mousel. — Very little can be predicted of a man who has associ- 
ated with Smith as long as Mousel has. Charley may develop 
into a justice of the peace and he may become a trainer of race 
horses. Either field will furnish many opportunities for the de- 
velopment of sterling traits of character. 

Parker is the oldest man in the class and one of the most sedate, 
orderly, and substantial individuals in the University. If he sur- 
vives the abusive and threatening missives with which White and 
Manville deluge him in class he will become a Sunday school 
superintendent. 

Placek deserves something good if anyone does. Mr. Placek, 



56 THE DIGEST 

if death does not gather him in, will some day reach the supreme 
bench of the United States. His aggressive personality, his pro- 
foundly of thought, and his remarkable legal erudition will make 
him one of the brightest stars that has ever shown above the wool 
sack at Washington. 

Ridgley was made for a hermit. He studies alone and "of 
nights. " He walks alone to and from recitations and sits alone in 
class. He resents familiarities and condemns frivolities. He will 
retire to the sand hills in the northern part of the state and formu- 
late a new system of religion. 

Risser is a fighter. He " scraps" just for the fun of "scrap- 
ping," and " chews the rag " from sheer contrariness. He likes 
unpopular causes and champions unpopular men and measures. 
He will become the leader of the prohibition party in Chicago. 

Smith is one of the best men in the class. He does not intend 
to waste his talents on the law. With an eye to the main chance 
he will go to Milwaukee and start a brewery. 

True is the only student in the University who is familiar 
enough with the members of the faculty to go into their private 
offices and give them pointers as to how the College of Law 
should be run. He will some day become private secretary to 
the president of the United States. 

Thompson expects to compile a cyclopedia. While preparing 
his thesis he read and made extracts from thirty-seven thousand 
cases, and habitually employed two colored gentlemen to carry 
his notes from place to place. He has sufficient experience to fit 
him for the task he expects to make his life work. 

White aspires to the office of postmaster in Carson precinct of 
Grant county, Idaho. His extended political experience will 
materially assist him in securing this plum. Mr. White is well 
qualified for the position he seeks. He has repeatedly walked 
into Lincoln from his Douglas county home, and he has served 
one term as sergeant-at-arms of the Maxwell Club. 

D. L. Wilson has a good deal of the philanthropist about him. 
He believes in doing good to mankind whenever and wherever he 
is given an opportunity, For that reason and because the occu- 
pation will be both lucrative and agreeable, he has decided to 
found and push to succcess a new Greek letter fraternity. 



Oie maxwell <£Iub 

The Brahmins hare a legend which tells how one of the lesser 
deities created the material universe, and one of the ordinary an- 
gels peopled the earth. But when the subject of the creation of 
Youth was presented, all the millions of gods were required to 
work out that most wonderful and most dangerous gift — the youth 
of man. The legend further declares that the creation of a 
grown-up man was of so little consequence, that any one of them 
might have performed theactwith ease: but the creation of youth, 
with its beauty, its possibilities, and its fateful charm, required 
the united genius of the pantheon. When they had finally 
wrought out their labor, and beheld what a perilous thing they 
had made, they debated a thousand years whether they should be- 
stow this gift upon the human race. When finally it was decided. 
a deputation of angels was sent to earth to endow humanity with 
this precious boon. Their mission done, they gathered about 
them a group of the young men and maidens, and said: "Xow 
you have youth — what are you going to do with it? " The angels 
then re-ascended into the skies, the music of their voices floating 
back to earth and forever echoing from thought to nadir, from 
heart to Heaven — "Xow you have youth, what are you going to 
do with it I " 

Long ago, as this momentous query was echoing over the 
American desert, it brushed the minds of a group of sons of the 
" unexhausted west." Great souls they were — portions of eter- 
nity made on no "worn-out plan." masters of their own and 
other's fates. What are we going to do with our youth? Each 
looked into the other's eyes and each saw a purpose as good as 
their combined achievement was great. We'll form the Max well 
Club; its name shall be a "tower of strength." its purposes Web- 
sterian. Then on the eve of that " Golden Clasp which binds to- 
gether the volume of the week" we'll meet together to worship 
at the shrine of the Attic quartette. 



58 THE DIGEST 

Their work accomplished, the Maxwell Club has now for many 
moons shed its beams of beneficent influence upon all who come 
within the pales of the Law School. We may judge of its use- 
fulness in the past only by the magic effect it has had on some 
of the present members. Take Goodner, for instance, when he 
was first initiated he was so bashful he could scarce whisper his 
own name; now he can stand erect with both feet squarely on the 
floor, his left hand ensconsed in his pocket, the right poised in 
mid-air, and make the "worse appear the better reason." And 
hear Manville's words of "learned length," or Wilson; 

' ' And 'tis remarkable that they 
Talk most who have the least to say." 

and Kisser, whose resistless eloquence wields at will that " fierce 
democracy"; or Smith's "words, words, words"; or Killen, 
graced with all the power of words, so known and so honored — by 
some; or Gates, who could "plead a bad cause down to worse";, 
and White, when he speaks 

" The air, a chartered libertine, is still, 
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears 
To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences." 

Miller would 

' ' Undertake to prove by force 
Of argument, a man's no horse;" 

Warner's tongue drops manna; and Abbott, I say unto you 
let him have "contingent remainders" for his theme and his elo- 
quence will enthrone him with the arch-angels. And there is 
Greene, he can talk of every cause until he is hoarse and all he 
says is law; and Parker with that awful wisdom which inspects, 
discerns, compares, weighs, separates, seizes the right and holds 
it to the last. When Greenfield addresses us his "rising seems 
a pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven deliberation sits 
and public care." There, too, are Flaherty and Coleman. Well, 
"God made them and therefore let them pass for men." 

In view of these and many more examples as notorious, it would 
seem none would doubt the efficiency of the Maxwell Club. Yet 
there is many a coy excuse for not participating regularly in its 
deliberations, and many a vain denial of the benefits gained by 
those who diligently attend its meetings. For in this miniature 



THE MAXWELL CLUB 59 

field of action there is betrayed every legal criterion. And this 
prophetic soul declares that a few decades hence, when the whirli- 
gig of time has ordained that the Maxwellian of Ninety-seven has 
dignified the bar and graced the bench, when his likeness is dis- 
played on the walls of every law school and well patronized law 
office in this land, along with Blackstone, Kent, Marshall, and 
Gray, when in his hand the beam of justice's scales stands sure,, 
and his name becomes 

"The hope of all who suffer, 
The dread of all who wrong; " 

then will the authors of the following regret the slighted proffers 
of the Maxwell Club. Folsom has "no nights off." Toby has 
"too much business." Cunningham goes "to watch the ama- 
teurs perform." Flaherty has "no time." Wilson can not 
attend because the chairman will not give him proper recog- 
nition. Jones, being a man of u ordinary ability," but "a fair 
disposing" mind, thinks there is "nothing to be gained by such 
association," and the Maxwell Club thinks so too. Creigh attends 
to practice football. These answers, however, are not represen- 
tative ones. The great majority appreciate the benefits the club 
has for them, and desire to reciprocate and make the club, as 
Greenfield says, "the best in the University." 

As we come to the close of the year, and the class of '97 
goes forth, each will pause on the threshold of the club-room, 
look longingly back, and breathe, 

"Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness." 

That is the scene of my contests and triumphs. The contests, and 
truly the triumphs, are liable to be less frequent now. Each 
feels prepared, however. All the disguised blessings of counsel 
and restraint have been lavishly bestowed upon him; and it would 
seem that where these twin sense-compellers labor so untiringly, 
nothing but innate perverseness could keep him from correct 
action. But the combined influence of counsel, restraint, and 
everlasting prodding will fall short of bringing some of us up to 
the "high standard of the complete lawyer." 

" Train his ears howe'er you will, 
A donkey is a donkey still." 



iecjal paternity of pfyi Delta pfyi 



LINCOLN CHAPTER 

FRATRES IN FACULTATE 

Judge Manoah B. Reese. 
Prof. Charles A. Robbins, Ph.B., Ph.M., LL.B. 
Prof. Henry H. Wilson, Ph.B., A.M., LL.M. 
Judge Joseph R. Webster, A.B., A.M., a 0. 
Hon. John C. Watson, A.B., LL.B. 
Judge Frank Irvine, B.S., LL.B. 
Hon. Williamson S. Summers, B.Sa, LL.B., ATA. 
Judge Jacob Fawcett. 
Mr. B. F. Good, LL.B. 



FRATRES IN UNIVERSITATE 
1897 

William Henry Hayward, </> A e, e x e. Ivan Wilbur Goodner. 

Mahlon Fritz Manville, A.B., 2 a E. Albert Sidney White, 2AE. 

Ward Hildreth, A.B., 9 K i/>, </> b K. John De Yarman Smith. 

Frank Brown, A.B., A.M., $ K ip. Beach Coleman, B.L. 

Charles Yoder Thompson, $ K ip. Jesse Tuck Parker, a k e. 

George Hampton Risser, 2 x. Charles Edwin Abbott. 

Guy Wilder Green, B. S. Sidney Merlin True. 

1898 

Frederick Rivard Du Frene, 2 a e. 
George Edgar Tobey. 
George Stewart Ralston. 
Charles Franklin Ladd, D.D.S. ; d> K ¥. 
Burton Wilbur Wilson, A.B, oKt,e N E. 
Charles Hudson Imhoff, © K *. 
Ernest Capron Ames, A. B. , b © n, x e. 
Ernest Clinton Folsom. 

FRATRES IN URBE 

Carlton C. Marley, A.B., LL.B., ATA. 
Henry Allen Reese, A.B., LL. B., Ben. 
John Howe Far well, LL.B., 2 a e, x e. 
Ralph E. Johnson, A.B., LL.B. 
Philip Green, A.B., LL.B., Ben. 
John Cunningham, B.Sc, M.Ph., LL.B. 
Otis G. Whipple, LL.B., ata. 



pf>t Delta pfji 

Founded at University of Michigan, 1869. 





CHAPTER ROLL. 




Kent, 


University of Michigan, 


1869 


Benjamin, 


Illinois Wesleyan University, 


1878 


Booth, 


Northern University, 


1880 


Story, 


Columbia College, 


1881 


Cooley, 


St. Louis Law School, 


1882 


Pomeroy, 


University of California, 


1883 


Marshall, 


Columbia University, 


1881 


Jay, 


Albany Law School, 


1884 


Webster, 


Boston Law School, 


1885 


Hamilton, 


Cincinnati Law School, 


1886 


Gibson, 


University of Pennsylvania, 


1886 


Choate, 


Harvard University, 


1887 


Waite, 


Yale University, 


1887 


Field, 


New York University, 


1S88 


Conklin, 


Cornell University, 


188S 


Tiedeman, 


University of Missouri, 


1890 


Minor, 


University of Virginia, 


1890 


Dillon, 


University of Minnesota, 


1891 


Daniels, 


Buffalo Law School, 


1S91 


Chase, 


University of Oregon, 


1891 


Harlan, 


University of Wisconsin, 


1891 


Swan, 


Ohio State University, 


1893 


McClain, 


State University of Iowa, 


1893 


Lincoln, 


University of Nebraska, 


1895 


Osgoode, 


Law School of Upper Canada, 


1896 


Puller, 


Chicago College of Law, 


1896 



"CL IDorb to ttjc Wise" 



BY JUDGE M. B. KEESE, DEAN 



To you who are about to take your leave of the College of 
Law, carrying with you your certificates of graduation, a parting 
word might not seem to be out of place. 

The two years of our association together have been years of 
pleasure to me and, I hope, not otherwise to you. You have 
labored faithfully and patiently, and your advancement has been 
a source of great pleasure, not only to me, but to all whose prov- 
ince it has been to assist you in your efforts. Were it not that 
we feel that you now enter upon lines of usefulness, and that by 
your upright conduct in your professional lines you will shed 
honor and luster upon your chosen profession, this would be a 
melancholy occasion. But I have faith in you, and believe that I 
will hear nothing but favorable reports from you. This is a 
consolation, and, notwithstanding the time to say " Good-bye" 
has come, we part with buoyant hopes and bright prospects for 
the future. 

Before taking leave of you I desire to say that, while it is true 
that your progress has been rapid and your advancement all that 
could have been expected, yet with all your toil and application 
you cannot suppose that you have attained anything like perfec- 
tion in your calling. Perfection in law is never attained. The 
oldest and most successful practitioners and judges in our pro- 
fession are but students. Although you have succeeded well in 
your studies, and your prospects for future success are flattering 
indeed, yet you must not forget that you are still, and ever will 
be, students. You have attended the law school in order that 
you might learn how to study. As you advance in knowledge 
you will more clearly see that a great field for investigation and 



64 THE DIGEST 

exploration is ever widening before you. The lawyer's life can 
never be a life of rest. In this, above all other professions, we 
tind no "flowery beds of ease." Of all the learned professions, 
you have selected the most laborious and most exacting. The 
clergyman may discourse eloquently from the sacred desk, but if 
his logic or his theories do not suit his hearers they are simply 
cast aside with perhaps but a passing remark. There is no one 
to stand beside him and combat his assertions. The physician 
may stand beside his patient until the last hope of life is gone, 
and possibly until life itself has departed, but there is no one to 
stand before him and say, "This is your mistake." Not so with 
the lawyer. His very profession itself calls for — demands — an- 
tagonism. Every position he assumes, every argument he ad- 
vances, every point he presents is met, resisted, and combatted, 
and all his mistakes and errors laid bare to the world, particularly 
to his client. He is assailed upon every side. His positions, if 
advisedly taken, are ridiculed; his arguments are denounced as 
sophistries, and his "authorities" are declared to be "not in 
point." The midnight oil, shedding its light upon his books, is his 
only refuge, and he is forcibly reminded of the old proverb, that 
"There is no excellence without great labor." 

But you can succeed. You will succeed, if you but heed the 
admonition of the many thousands of our profession who have 
preceded you. Work, labor, toil; trouble and application is the 
lawyer's life. If you would succeed you must be lawyers. Not 
the case lawyer, who fritters away his time waiting for clients to 
bring him cases to be "looked up" "after taking;" but the 
close, hard, persistent student of legal principles, the application 
of which he may be able and ready to make as soon as the case is 
presented. This is what is required of the individual who would 
be recognized by the members of the profession as a lawyer. 

Let me impress upon your minds the fact that if you take the 
position in life which you should take, you have no time to lose. 
Some of you may be compelled by adverse circumstances to re- 
sort, temporarily, to some other calling until debts are paid or 
money accumulated with which to purchase the first books in 
your library. If this be true you will be required to submit to 
it; but in so doing you should not neglect your legal studies. 



65 

There is no such thing as remaining stationary. You must ad- 
vance or you will retrograde. Get hold of some law book. 
Read and study. Get another. Study and read. If you cannot 
procure the more desirable books, become the more familiar with 
those you have. Be sure that when you do enter upon your pro- 
fessional life you will know more than you now know. When 
you shall have entered upon that career, remember that you must 
make that your business. Whether you have clients or not, you 
will have no time for dissipation or loafing. Adopt for your 
motto the proverb of Dr. Franklin: ''Keep thy shop and thy shop 
will keep thee." Eemember that a hundred lawyers rust out, to 
one who kills himself by hard labor. 

Start in life with the fixed purpose and intention of never under 
any possible circumstances deviating from the path of inflexible, 
unbending and unyielding integrity. If you are worthy of the 
confidence of others, in any degree, you will have — you must have 
in your keeping the money, property, rights, secrets, liberty, 
and lives of your clients. These, all, you must preserve, protect, 
maintain, and defend as you would your very existence. 

Never go into court with a case without the most careful and 
painstaking study of that particular case from every possible 
point of view. Know the facts on loth sides. Study the law to 
be applied from the standpoint of your adversary as much as 
from your own. You have a chart — study it. 

As you value yourself, your standing in your neighborhood, 
town, and county, keep out of local politics. The ward heeler, 
the politcal shyster, the manipulator of the primaries, and the 
standing local delegate who has a law office is about as contempti- 
ble a piece of humanity as is permitted to pollute the face of the 
earth. Never be found on the sidewalk or in any other public 
place "arguing politics." Entertain opinions upon all popular 
subjects, but form these from your own investigation of those 
subjects. Express them in moderation, but never take an intel- 
lectual scuffle and wallow on the streets. Do the greater portion 
of your talking in your neat, orderly and well kept office. 



preparation for tfye Stuby of £att> 

BY PROFESSOR HENRY H. WILSON 

A question of supreme importance that should receive the care- 
ful consideration of every young man is the choice of the voca- 
tion in which he is to do his life's work. Many circumstances 
will justly have influence in the decision of this question. But 
circumstances often unconsciously have too much influence in this 
respect. Too often mere chance influences are allowed to lead 
one into this or that business without any deliberate choice having 
been made and with no consideration of one's fitness for it. 
While everyone's surroundings and circumstances should receive 
due consideration in the choice of his vocation, he should not al- 
low himself to drift into any vocation merely by suffering him- 
self to go in the direction of the least resistance. 

His choice may often be influenced, and sometimes even con- 
trolled by circumstances, yet his life's work should be entered 
upon by deliberate choice and not become the unconscious result 
of circumstances. 

Next in importance to the choice of a vocation in life is the means 
of entering upon it with the best possible chances of ultimate suc- 
cess. It ought not to be necessary to say that certain natural 
qualifications are necessary to success in almost every vocation in 
life. That one has been successful in one line of work is no assurance 
that he would not have failed in others. No young man should 
ever look forward to the practice of law who has not in him the 
element of intellectual pugnacity. 

Litigation is still to a great extent trial by wager of battle. 
The contest is no longer physical but intellectual. Courts and 
juries are human, and often find it difficult to resist the contention 
of a bold, persistent, aggressive, intellectual athlete pleading for 
the life, liberty, or property of his client. 

Usually the lawyer finds the precedent for his client's conten- 



PREPARATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW 67 

tion, but at times every lawyer will find that his only way to suc- 
cess lies across the terra incognita, and he must have the intellec- 
tual courage to lead the way, and the skill to make it so plain 
that even the conservative court may find sure footing on which 
to follow. 

What preparation should then precede the study of the law? 
The conditions of . success at the bar are very different from what 
they were a century or even a half century ago, and these con- 
ditions are every year growing more exacting. Many started in 
the law forty or fifty years ago with but meager preliminary pre- 
paration, and have reached high places in the profession, who 
could not start now with like preparation and ever hope to reach 
the same relative rank. Success in the study and practice of the 
law now demands long and thorough preparation. It demands a 
broad foundation in good general scholarship. 

I do not mean that one mast necessarily hold a college diploma 
before studying law. He may hold that and yet be very deficient 
in the rudiments of a good general education. True, the college 
or university is the best place in which to acquire a good general 
education, but it is by no means the only place where it can be 
had. Many of our great lawyers whose general education was 
broad and thorough, were not college-bred men. 

The practice of law touches life at every point, and with the 
growth of our civilization the demands upon the lawyer are nec- 
essarily more varied. There is no field of human knowledge into 
which his work may not lead him. There is no science, a knowl- 
edge of whose principles may not be of importance to him. 

It is the business of the advocate to enforce his ideas upon the 
court and jury. No one can ever hope to rise to the rank of even 
a second-rate advocate who has not acquired the art of clear and 
forcible expression. It is true, that to some nature has denied the 
power to ever acquire this art, but it is likewise true that she has 
denied to them the possibility of ever becoming great advocates. 

No one should, however, lay the blame entirely upon dame na- 
ture until he has made heroic efforts to accomplish his end. There 
are many examples of great power of expression acquired only 
after obstacles apparently insuperable were overcome. While 
the power of clear, forcible expression is, to some extent, a 



68 THE DIGEST 

natural gift, yet nature can be much assisted by thorough gen- 
eral education and acquaintance with the best English writers- 
One unconsciously acquires something of the style of expression 
of the authors whom he reads. A wise choice of English prose 
may do do much to improve one's style of expression. The 
speeches of great orators may often be studied to advantage by 
those who wish to improve in public speaking. While true elo- 
quence is essentially a natural gift, the power of clear and forci- 
ble expression is an art capable of successful cultivation. 

It is not so much in the acquisition of knowledge as in the in- 
tellectual training that thorough, general education is a necessary 
prerequisite to the successful study and practice of law. One 
cannot delay entering upon the study of law until he has mas 
tered the science of medicine, merely because his first case may 
be one of malpractice; nor can he wait to master civil engineer- 
ing, because he may at once be called upon to try a case in- 
volving the proper construction of a railway bridge; but he 
ought not to enter upon the study of law until by long, per- 
sistent and patient study of other things he has acquired that 
power of mental concentration and endurance that will render 
success in the study of the law probable. In all schemes of edu- 
cation there are certain branches of knowledge that are permit- 
ted to be taken only after certain preliminary preparation has 
been made. This is because without such preparation there is no 
reasonable hope of success in them. The law is difficult and abstruse, 
and the young man whose education is limited to the three R.'s 
ought not for his own good, as well as that of the public, to be 
permitted to enter upon the study of law with a view to its prac- 
tice. It is not contended that all well educated men would make 
good lawyers, but it is true that no man will ever be likely to 
reach high rank as a lawyer without a fair general education 
acquired either in or out of the schools. 

An effort is being made by the law schools of the country to 
raise the requirements, as to the general education of the appli- 
cants for admission to their classes. So long as no preliminary 
preparation is required for office reading with a view to being 
admitted to the bar, such a movement among the law colleges is 
likely to defeat its own purpose. Its purpose doubtless is to 



PREPARATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW 69 

raise the general educational level of the legal profession. If, 
however, a young man of limited general education is to be ad- 
mitted to the bar, it were much better that he prosecute his study 
of the law in a law college, surrounded by a scholarly atmosphere, 
than in a law office where the educational level is perhaps no 
higher than his own. It will avail nothing to close the law col- 
lege to those whose general education has not prepared them for 
the study of the law, if they can come to the bar through office 
reading, with no preliminary training and much less knowledge 
of the law itself than the law college would have given them. 
Unless the higher standard of preliminary preparation be also 
demanded as a prerequisite of office reading, then such a demand 
on the part of the law schools is likely to lower rather than raise 
the general educational level of the profession. The remedy, 
therefore, lies in the higher standard of preliminary preparation 
for the study of law in the law office, as well as admission to the 
law schools. 

It is often urged that severe requirements of preliminary gen- 
eral education would exclude from the profession many who are 
destined to become its brightest ornaments. It may be said that 
the names of Clay, Calhoun, and Lincoln, would never have 
adorned the roll of honor in the legal profession if a high standard 
of general education had been, in their day, required as a necessary 
qualification for admission to the bar. It must, however, be re- 
membered that we now live in a day when higher education forms 
a part of the great system of public schools. It may well be 
doubted whether any young man of our time, who has not the 
energy and determination to obtain a good general education, will 
ever attain distinction at the bar either with or without its ad- 
vantages. One can hardly conceive of a Clay, a Calhoun, or a 
Lincoln, surrounded by our present educational advantages, en- 
tering upon the study of the law without having laid a good 
foundation for it in general education. Neither will we believe 
that men like these would even in their day have been deterred 
from entering their chosen profession because of any reasonable 
requirement of preliminary preparation. It is more than doubt- 
ful whether even these great men could have entered the law fifty 
years later and with no better preliminary preparation achieved 
the same measure of success. 



70 THE DIGEST 

But whatever may be said of the isolated few, the geniuses of 
the race, there can be no doubt that a fair general education is 
every year becoming more and more essential to success at the 
bar. And even those who have attained distinction without it 
have done so not because of their lack of preliminary training, 
but only by overcoming disadvantages arising from it. That a 
genius succeeds at the bar, without general education, by no 
means proves that the average young man can safely neglect the 
advantages it confers. 

The mere possession of a college diploma should not be taken to 
qualify one to study law, nor should the lack of it necessarily ex- 
clude him. It is preliminary training and mental development 
that should be demanded, not a college degree. It may not be 
essential that proficiency in any particular branch of knowledge 
should be shown. It is not accumulated knowledge, the posses- 
sion of a mass of undigested facts, that qualifies one for the study 
of law, but rather mental development and intellectual acumen, 
which are, indeed, the distinguishing characteristics of true edu- 
cation. The well equipped lawyer is an intellectual athlete. He 
cannot delay entering upon his profession until he has acquired 
all the general knowledge he will need in practice, but he should 
delay until he has acquired something of that mental development 
and intellectual strength that gives him the power of concentrated 
mental effort. There is no profession in which the power to 
master a subject thoroughly and quickly is so essential to success 
as in that of the law. Cases are often won or lost by the ability 
of the lawyer, or his want of it, to master in a short space of time, 
the particular branch of knowledge involved in the controversy. 
The successful lawyer must possess the power to acquire this 
knowledge after he finds that it is necessary for him to use it. 

No one will ever reach the higher walks of the profession who 
plods through its fields thinking only of the loaves and fishes its 
practice will bring him. 

The empyreal atmosphere on the heights is breathed only by 
those who see in the law something more than the means of mak- 
ing a living — who can see in it a great system of principles, the 
growth of centuries, by which the social fabric is held together. 



icqal (Ethics 



BY HOX. J. K. WEBSTEK. 

It is with regret one leaves his students where the relation has 
been so pleasant. In parting I will say some words of counsel. 
You are like a battalion of recruits, I like one of an exhausted 
command being relieved. The retiring veteran would tell some 
advantage or peril of the field. The recruit is impatient to listen, 
anxious only for action. I venture some remarks on ethics that, 
remembered, will avail you in the active life you enter. 

Young men, as you enter life, remember that as there are three 
cardinal feminine virtues, cleanliness, fidelity, and tenderness, so 
there are four cardinal manly virtues, courage, truth, loyalty, and 
kindness. If you have these, whatever be lacking of full manly 
character, you will have other's respect. Without any one of these 
you will not. With these you will be respected because others 
will know they can depend on and trust you. 

Society is as truly an organism as is an animal or plant. No 
part is independent of any other. So in society, the welfare of 
every member affects the welfare and advancement of all. Soci- 
ety is an aggregation of individuals, none independent of many 
others. None can live to himself, none die merely to himself. 
Many must be affected. It ought to be the aim of each that 
others may be affected for good, made better, happier. You can 
not avoid affecting for good or ill those among whom you live. 

Twelve centuries before complete organization of the high 
court of chancery there lived the Great Chancellor who defined 
in one sentence the principles of equity, "All things whatsoever 
ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them." 
When asked by lawyers the first duty, "The great command- 
ment," as altruist, philosopher, and chancellor he recognized no 
first commandment. In his view two were equally great. He 
said the first law is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 



~- THE DIGEST 

thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind; " and added 
4 ' The second is like unto it c Thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyslf . ' " He could not put the duty due f ron>rnan to God above 
that due from man to man, and said in substance there is no duty 
due one higher than to the other. God requires no more of you 
to him than of you to your fellow; you owe to the neighbor as 
high duty as to the Creator. I think I may well say then that 
self interest alone is not a right guide to moral conduct. 

A most difficult thing is right and wise living. One must be 
self-respecting and not self important; must maintain personal 
dignity, yet be not quick to take offense not intended; there must 
be some reserve, but not too much. The capable man who does 
not assert opinion, nor lead in difficulty cannot rise to his merit. 
Society cannot rely upon or trust one who has no confidence in 
himself. If one is diffident and retiring, preferring study to 
mingling in affairs, the busy world will go by not marking him 
out. Courage and the self-confidence it gives is indispensable to 
success in life. Egotism is less vicious than timidity and cow- 
ardice. Society is but co-operating activity, and you must be 
social and companionable, have and express opinions and be 
ready to lead if called, avoiding offensive egotism. Attain this 
middle way if you can, but at all events have courage. 

Be truthful and honest. How can one trust another who is not 
both? A truthful man must be honest, save the rare few whose 
conscience and self-respect are wholly gone." A truthful man may 
be dishonest. He is totally depraved who can admit it. One 
may do wrong, but will argue with conscience to some way jus- 
tify it. Manfred said, "I have ceased to justify myself unto 
myself, the last extremity of evil. " A volume of philosophy is 
in that sentence. Only the utterly bad will not try to excuse his 
wrong doing- 
Loyalty is kin to truth. It is truth coupled with self-devotion, 
yielding self to duty. It is negation of selfishness and ingrati- 
tude, and goes hand in hand with truth. The disloyal to friend, 
humanity, or country is unworthy of confidence of friend, hu- 
manity or country, and not worthy or likely to succeed in life. 

Kindness is due from every living being to all living beings, 
for none can be free from duty to many others. The social structure 



LEGAL ETHICS ^3 

makes each dependent for much and on many. The more privi- 
leges one has the greater and more numerous his debts. There- 
fore, the virtues — courage, truth, loyalty, and kindness, are car- 
dinal and essential to social life. 

This much to all entering active life. I hope none have taken law 
as an easy way to get bread. That motive will make you fail or 
be poor lawyers. No one was ever a great lawyer who had not 
burned oil far past midnight, even to sunrise. The law is a jeal- 
ous mistress. Diversion of energy to other objects she revenges 
by lessening standing and success. Eminent success cannot be 
won without undivided and earnest labor. 

The law is a liberal profession and imposes special obligations. 
The lawyer is an officer of the courts of justice, a priest in service 
of a sanctuary. He should respect the profession and venerate 
justice. He should seek success not for its pleasure or profit, 
but to thereby serve justice. Look not on the court as a field of 
combat. Do not work for mere reward. The highest reward if 
you love justice is the delight in your own heart in vindicating 
right. Love justice for herself and you will stand well with the 
public and the bar, and will not lack business. 

Never try to deceive court or jury. Do not suppress evidence 
or seduce witnesses. Remember truth is a cardinal virtue. You 
may argue on conflicting evidence what the fact is. From im- 
perfect observation or memory, witnesses will disagree. You 
can point this out and argue truth is on your side. On conflict- 
ing authority you may argue better reason is on your side. 
This is as far as you can go. Let your argument on fact and law 
be honest, without attempt at misstatement or suppression. 

Never refuse aid to distress, however unpopular the cause or 
strong the adversary. Serve such as cheerfully as the knight of 
chivalry. You cannot, as he, live on hospitality, and so cannot 
render all your service to distress; but if you see right denied to 
one poor make as earnest effort as though for a large reward. 

Whatever is worth doing is worth well doing, whether re- 
warded or not. You cannot afford to be slipshod. Do what you do 
well though gratis. Slovenly manner will detract from business; 
letters and papers should be clean and without erasure. Have 
your cases ready for trial when reached. Never permit surprise 
to find you unready. 



74 THE DIGEST 

Be loyal to the client always; prefer his interest to your own; 
keep his counsel inviolate; avoid other than professional business 
with him; neither buy of him or sell to him. It may smirch your 
honor. Let not a business day pass with a collection unremitted. 
Do not use or speculate on it or pass a day for pleasure of carry- 
ing it. If channels of commerce have not closed, remit the day 
received, at all events the first business day. 

Control yourself. Never appear surprised and thrown off 
your poise. Observe this especially at critical times in trial or 
debate. Composure will carry you by many a danger that per- 
turbation may betray to your adversary of which he is unaware. 
Never show violent or sudden anger or yet elation, except under 
extraordinary circumstances, better seem cold than mercurial. 

Be always courteous. Whatever his rivalry with associates a 
lawyer should always have brotherly regard for them, without 
jealousy or quarrel. To the young lawyer be kind as a father, 
give him use of your office, library, counsel, and assistance, as 
freely as to your child. Never be guilty of brow-beating, bully- 
ing or discourtesy to witness, party, or counsel; no good end can 
be gained or good cause served by it. 

In choosing its lawgivers and governmental agents society takes 
ratably more lawyers than others because they have studied the 
relations of persons and property and are fitted for the service. 
This casts on the bar duty to study political economy and the 
philosophy of social development as well as law. No pursuit so 
requires a large fund of general information. To try his cause 
the laAvyer may have to study any branch of science, mechanics, 
chemistry, medicine, surgery, art, or even dry dogmatic creeds. 
It were futile to enumerate. He cannot have all books, nor be- 
fore entering: practice acquire all human learning. But he should 
have general knowledge and familiarity with books and liberal 
learning that he may know where and how to seek fuller know- 
ledge of any subject as need arises. This liberalizes and broadens 
his views. He sees that no social, political, or other institutions 
are fixed, stable, or "ordained"; that all institutions, even mar- 
riage and the family, are but result of evolutionary processes. 
Seeing how and whence present institutions came to be, he real- 
izes that those we are wont to deem " sacred" may in course of 
social progress change form or yield to others widely different. 



LEGAL ETHICS 75 

This leads to books useful to lawyers as lawyers, or as the best 
informed class in society. I omit books of law. for your course 
has given you general knowledge to guide your purchase to full 
limit of your means, and practice will advance skill to choose 
faster than means to buy a law library. 

Every young lawyer should own and be familiar with Cicero's 
Moral Essays and Sharswood's Legal Ethics, and own the best 
cyclopedia and lexicon his means can buy. Of high literature in 
lields of history, oratory, romance, and poetry, a well informed 
friend and aid of library and catalogue will guide. He cannot 
do better than buy as many of the best as possible. 

Liable to be called into, and more or less expecting to take part 
in public affairs, he ought to have and read Leeky's History of 
Civilization. Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy, those 
parts relating to evolution of society, to the family, and to par- 
ent and child: Wake's Kinship and Marriage. Morgan's Ancient 
Society — a highly instructive and philosophic work by an Amer- 
ican of so rare merit that, translated, it went through three Ger- 
man editions, and was familiar to German philosophers before 
appreciated at home or the first American edition exhausted. 

An army must have an arsenal, and a soldier a cartridge box. 
The lawyer called often to debate must have his vad* meciim 
whence, as occasion arises, by perfect familiarity he can draw 
metaphor and illustration as point to argument or repartee. 
There are but two such books in our language — King James' ver- 
sion of the Bible, and Shakespeare. They are each a wealth of 
illustration and metaphor. Make them your most familiar 
friends. The Bible is unrivalled in purity, condensation, and 
power of plain Saxon. Saxon is the basis of modern English. 
The layman use most wholly plain Saxon words. The man who 
sits in the jury box speaks and understands it. Make yourself 
master of the plain Saxon vigor of the Bible and you can make 
a strong argument which the juryman can comprehend. 

I hope something I have done, suggested, or -aid may rouse to 
higher thought and aspiration and be remembered and of advan- 
tage to you. I wish you each may merit and attain abundant 
success to your utmost de-ire. If at any time I can aid you in 
perplexity, come to me and so oblige me and please me. Now it 
remains only to say good bye. 



(Lfye Umt>ersttu cm6 tfye public School System 

By Chancellor George E. MacLean. 

The University of Nebraska is a part of the public school sys- 
tem of the State. The University embraces from the thirteenth 
to the nineteenth grades of the school system. From the thir- 
teenth to the sixteenth grades we have the ordinary undergradu- 
ate courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and 
Bachelor of Science. The seventeenth grade leads to the degree of 
Master of Arts. The completion of the nineteenth grade brings 
to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. These last three grades 
constitute the work of the graduate school of the University. It 
is open for the graduates of the colleges in the University, and 
of all reputable colleges within and without the state. In all the 
regular courses the University crowns the work begun in the 
grades and continued in the high schools. 

SCOPE OF THE UNIVERSITY'S WORK. 

In addition to the ample facilities for liberal education in liter- 
ature, science, and the arts, there is provision for technical edu- 
cation in the Industrial College, and for professional education 
in the College of Law. There are also special professional un- 
dergraduate courses preparatory to medicine, and in law, and 
journalism. Professional training for teachers is provided in a 
two-years' course, particular attention being given to Child Study 
and Pedagogy. Certificates entitling teachers to a first grade 
teacher's license, and later — if they are successful in instruction — 
to a life certificate, are given to those who take the special courses 
in Science and Art of Teaching and make the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts or Science. 

The University has a Summer School that after this year it is 
hoped will become a six weeks' summer term of the University, 
intended especially to accommodate the teachers of the state. 
The equipments of the University in men and means are thus put 



THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM i I 

at the service of those who are to be leaders in the entire school 
system. 

To meet the present requirements of industrial education in 
the state, the University has established a School of Mechanic 
Arts, with a two years* practical course that receives students of 
sufficient age from graded schools. In like manner there is a 
School of Agriculture and a Dairy School that takes the boys and 
girls from the farm and returns them to the farm prepared to 
use applied science in improved farming. These two schools, it 
is expected, will become model schools, to be imitated in connec- 
tion with technical schools to be established in conjunction with 
the high schools in several counties in the state. These schools 
incidentally look toward encouraging students to enter the col- 
legiate schools of Engineering or the College of Agriculture. 
For six years past the University has maintained one of the two 
Sugar Schools in the United State?. 

The University, mindful of its many-sided relations to the 
state, has offered courses in University Extension, under which, 
in a very practical form, are included Farmers' Institutes. A 
School of Music and Fine Arts is affiliated with the University, 
in which, pending the opening of the College of Fine Arts, in- 
struction is given in every grade of instrumental and vocal 
music, in drawing, painting, wood carving, modeling, and the his- 
tory of art. Through the voluntary service of the Botanical 
Seminar and members of the University faculty, in connection 
with aid from the general government, a botanical and a o-eolog- 
ical survey of the state have been begun. The Regents of the 
University have, entrusted to their charge, the United States Ex- 
periment Station for purposes of investigation in agricultural sub- 
jects and for the diffusion of agricultural knowledge by the pub- 
lication of bulletins. A United States Weather Bureau Station 
has been established at the University, and a Museum in connec- 
tion with it has also been started. 

A review of what has been mentioned thus far, shows that the 
University is not simply a multiform school for higher instruc- 
tion, but that it is also a practical servant of the State in almost 
every conceivable direction. It is a depository for knowledge 
and a center for the diffusion of it. 



, 8 THE DIGEST 

Tuition at the University is free except in the Law School and 
in the affiliated schools. There is a nominal matriculation fee of 
live dollars, and a diploma fee. There is a laboratory deposit re- 
quired for materials ussd and apparatus injured, in a number of 
the Departments. Practically the institution opens its doors to 
all the sons and daughters of the State and to all students wher- 
ever their homes, without discrimination. The broad and hos- 
pitable spirit of a genuine University is seen in its foundation 
and in its endeavors and its work. 

THE EQUIPMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. 

The campus of the University covers four squares in a central 
location in the City of Lincoln. It is easily accessible from all 
railway stations. Upon the campus are located the large Uni- 
versity Hall, the Chemical Laboratory, Grant Memorial Hall, 
Nebraska Hall, the Electrical Laboratory and Shops, and the 
large modern Library building. The University farm, con- 
nected by electric railway with the University, consists of 320 
acres of cultivated land. On the farm are the Agricultural- 
Chemical laboratory, the Farm and Dairy School building, the 
Pathobiological laboratory, etc. 

The library of the University consists of the general library 
and a series of departmental libraries. There are some 33,000 
volumes in the general library alone. The laboratories are pro- 
vided with modern facilities and equipped with the most recent 
app aratus. 

FACULTY. 

At the present writing there are 111 professors and instructors, 
assistants and employes of all kinds. Many of the professors 
have an international reputation. There is full recognition of 
the sharp distinction between a professor and a pedagogue or 
ordinary teacher. The highest ideals are maintained as a stan- 
dard by which the college professor and instructor is a man of 
special training, prepared to be an investigator as well as a 
teacher. 

STUDENTS. 

The enrollment of students is increased this year to 1,650, as 
compared with 1,509 a year ago, and this despite the financial 



THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM i 9 

depression and the cutting off of the Preparatory Department. 
The students are for the most part mature young- men and women 
peculiarly earnest in their pursuit of an education, and many of 
them working their way through college. The ages range from 
fifteen years to fifty-six years. They are stalwart Nebraskans, 
with an intermingling of students from twenty-two other states. 
The University is assuming its rank as the largest trans-Missis- 
sippi University with the exception of the University of Cali- 
fornia. The students maintain a great variety of college organi- 
zations ranging from the religious and literary to the athletic 
field. 

ORGANIZATION. 

The University was originally founded by an Act of the Leg- 
islature which took effect February 15. 1869. The government 
of the University is vested in a Board of Eegents of six members 
elected by popular vote for terms of six years. The Eegents 
elect the Chancellor, who in the law is called the chief educator 
of the State. He is the nexus between the Regents and the 
Faculty, of which he is a member. The Regents also select the 
members of the Faculty. The Faculty is ordinarly the legisla- 
tive body, initiating the purely educational measures of the in- 
stitution and entrusted with the discipline of the students. 

REVENUES. 

The revenues of the University are derived from a tax of three- 
eighths of a mill per dollar upon the grand assessment roll of 
the State and from the income from land leases and sales under 
the Land Grant Act of Congress. There is also a money grant 
from the United States. The University is also possessed of cer- 
tain lands reserved for the endowment of the University. 

The Legislature of the State that has just adjourned made pro- 
vision to meet the shrinkage in the income of the University and 
voted money for the erection of the wing of a new building for 
the College of Mechanic Arts. It is clearly the determination of 
the people of Nebraska that the efficiency of its University shall 
be maintained unimpaired. 



history of tfye dollege of iavo 

BY PROF. CHARLES A. BOBBINS. 

In the fall of 1888, some two dozen young men, who were read- 
ing law in the offices of Lincoln lawyers, organized a class for 
more systematic study and the trial of moot cases. This class 
met for a few weeks in the law offices of Lamb, Ricketts & Wil- 
son, over the old Lancaster County Bank, on Tenth street. Soon 
after the organization of the class the writer accepted an invita- 
tion to become its leader and instructor. The place of meeting 
was changed to the rooms of the Lincoln Business College. The 
class met two evenings in each week. Readings were assigned in 
some standard text book, and the regular class work was limited 
to a quiz upon the subject matter of the reading. 

The work of the class as a whole was not satisfactory. All the 
advantages of law office study, so much vaunted by some law- 
yers who know nothing of the better methods, were possessed 
by these young men, supplemented by the regular assignment and 
discussion of readings; but their average progress was discour- 
agingly slow and uncertain. Class organization was too lax; 
recitations were too few; the study of the assigned readings 
could not be made compulsory. It ought to be said that a num- 
ber of the young men appeared to apply themselves diligently to 
the work and made satisfactory progress. With the coming of 
summer heat the work was suspended. 

Probably encouraged somewhat by the apparent success of that 
class, and at the suggestion of Messrs. T. S. Allen and W. F. 
Schwind, Mr. William Henry Smith, who had lately come to Lin- 
coln from Philadelphia, organized, in the fall of 1889, a law class 
which he called Central Law College. Good quarters were se- 
cured in the Burr block. The printed announcement contained 
the names of a very long list of lecturers including some of the 
most prominent lawyers in the state. Some of these gentlemen, 



HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF LAW 81 

and notably Judge Webster and Mr. Wilson of the present fac- 
ulty of this college, did deliver systematic courses of lectures. 

In the number and variety of her courts, the extent and char- 
acter of her libraries, the number and importance of her educa- 
tional institutions, and in her central location, Lincoln possessed 
decided advantages for the establishment of a law school, to which 
these earlier efforts served to attract attention. Members of the 
Lancaster county bar saw the oppor tunity and broached the sub- 
ject to members of the general faculty of the State University 
and board of regents. 

In April, '91, a committee of the faculty consisting of Profes- 
sors Howard, Kingsley, Caldwell, Nicholson, and McMillan re- 
ported in favor of the expediency of establishing a law depart- 
ment, not neglecting to add that ' ' the favorable influence of the 
bar will doubtless prove a new source of strength to the Univer- 
sity." Professor Howard presented the report to the board of 
regents. Judge J. P. Webster addressed the board in favor of 
the proposed school. The Lancaster county bar association passed 
favorable resolutions and appointed a committee to confer with 
the chancellor and regents. 

At the June meeting, 1891, the board of regents authorized 
the chancellor to confer with the bar committee upon the organi- 
zation of the school. At later meetings it provided for the sala- 
ries of a dean and four lecturers, "employed" William Henry 
Smith as Dean, appointed a large corps of lecturers, and author- 
ized the chancellor to assign to the "Law College" the use of 
such rooms "as might be secured without interference with reg- 
ular University work," and to have printed a " small, extra sheet 
for the present catalogue." 

The "law faculty," "until otherwise ordered," consisted of: 

William H. Smith, Dean; James M. Woolworth, Science of 
Jurisprudence; Joseph R. Webster, Equity Jurisprudence; John 
C. Co win, Constitutional Law; Manoah B. Reese, Real and Per- 
sonal Property; Samuel Maxwell, Pleadings; William H. Mun- 
ger, Private Rights and Obligations; Genio M. Lambertson, Crimi- 
nal Law; Henry H. Wilson, Evidence. 

With the exception of Mr. Co win, the gentlemen accepted the 
appointments. Mr. Munger lectured on the Domestic Relations 



82 . THE DIGEST 

and Mr. Lambertson on Inter-State Commerce. Mr. John C. 
Watson was subsequently appointed lecturer on Criminal Law. 

The following gentlemen were also invited to deliver lectures 
"at such times and upon such subjects as might be determined 
upon, but without compensation:" 

U S. J. Tuttle, S. B. Pound, N. S. Harwood, C. O. Whedon, 
T. M. Marquette, S. L. Geisthardt, A. R. Talbot, W. J. Bryan, 
all of Lincoln; Eleazer Wakely, John M. Thurston, W R. Kelly, 
H. J. Davis, all of Omaha; Judge Broady, of Beatrice; S. W. 
Osborne, of Blair; John B. Cessna, of Hastings; Judge Post, of 
Columbus; Judge W. H. Morris, of Crete." A number of these 
gentlemen delivered lectures before the school. 

A very "small, extra sheet" announced the opening of the 
school in October, 1891. The tuition was fixed at §30 a year. It 
was increased to §15 in 1895. Fifty-two students registered the 
first year, and twelve were graduated in June, 1892. 

Classes met in the botany room in Nebraska Hall. Possibly 
their presence there interfered "with regular University work," 
since the next year the school sought quarters in the Burr Block. 

The original course of study prepared by Dean Smith covered 
fairly well the field of elementary law, but it was greatly lacking 
in systematic arrangement, and unsuited to that orderly develop- 
ment of legal principles so helpful to the student, and so neces- 
sary to an understanding of the essential unity of our common 
law. It is said that the actual performance was even more dis- 
orderly than the printed program. 

Judge Reese, Mr. Wilson, and possibly other lecturers, as- 
signed regular readings in standard text-books in connection 
with their lectures. Indeed, early the first year, Mr. Wilson in- 
troduced a resolution at a faculty meeting suggesting the adop- 
tion of this method by all lecturers, but consideration of the 
resolution was postponed. The Dean was a firm believer in 
the efficiency of the so-called lecture system. There was no case 
study in the proper sense of the term. Text-books and cases 
were cited rather as authorities to justify the conclusions of the 
lecturer than as the proper subjects of careful study. Method 
and (lack of ) order combined to perplex the student, 



HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF LAW 83 

' ' Mastering what seemed the lawless science of our law, 
That codeless myriad of precedent, 
That wilderness of single instances. " 

The results obtained were disappointing to the friends of the 
school. After much deliberation a committee consisting of Chan- 
cellor Canfielcl and Regent Estabrook reported at the June, 1893, 
meeting of the board of regents, that the ''curriculum should be 
simplified and so modified as to give to each student a compara- 
tively small number of topics at any one time," and that "the 
greater part of the undergraduate course must be that of the 
recitation," " based very largely upon the use of text-books." 
Dean Smith resigned, not being "in accord with this method of 
instruction." 

Judge Reese succeeded to the deanship at the opening of the 
next school year. Lecturers Wilson, Webster, M Linger, Max- 
well, and Watson were retained. Judge Frank Irvine, Jacob 
Fawcett, W. W. Giffen, Judge J. H. Broady, and Judge W. H- 
Hastings (the last two for one year only) were added to the 
corps of lecturers, and the writer was appointed instructor- 
The school was brought back to the University campus, and the 
room in University Hall now occupied by Steward Dales as_ 
signed to its use. These quarters proving inadequate the school 
"lodged" the next year in room 16 in the same building, and 
upon the completion of the library building was allotted its pres- 
ent quarters. 

The course of study was simplified and so re-arranged that each 
subject might, as far as possible, serve as a fitting preparation 
for the next. The subjects of remedial law were grouped in the 
second year. With slight changes and some additions the course 
of study then adopted is still followed. Probably future changes 
will consist in a more elaborate treatment of present topics rather 
than in substantial additions to the curriculum. 

The method of instruction was changed. A modified form of 
the so-called text-book method was adopted and is still used. On 
some minor topics instruction is by lectures only Some lecturers 
combine the lecture and text-book methods. The writer has gen- 
erally combined the text-book and case study methods. The 
modern practice courts have been substituted for the ancient and 
well-niofh useless moot-courts. 



84 THE DIGEST 

Upon the reorganization of the school in 1893, a graduate 
course of instruction of one year was added, and in June, 1895, 
the master's degree was conferred upon seven candidates. For 
want of means to carry on the work properly, and because it was 
found practicable to give much of the same instruction in the 
undergraduate course, the graduate course was abandoned after 
the second year. 

W. S. Summers and B. F. Good were appointed special lecturers 
in 1891, and Dr. J. L. Greene was appointed lecturer on medical 
jurisprudence the present year. 

In 1893, the law library consisted of a few dozen text-books 
crowded into a corner of the general library. It has grown into 
a fair working library of two thousand volumes of the very best 
reports and texts, and is located in the lecture room under the 
charge of special attendants. 

The law school has already done much to raise the standard of 
admission to the bar in this state. It has, since 1893, greatly in- 
creased the amount of work required of its students. The mini- 
mum age of entrance has been raised from seventeen to nineteen. 
A proper academic preparation for law study has been urged at 
all times. The requirements for admission have been changed 
from the general "good English education" to the more certain 
equivalent of graduation from an accredited high school. A 
large proportion of the present senior class are college men, and 
forty per cent have received academic degrees. 

It was by the direct influence of the law school, that the state 
legislature of 1895 abolished the fraud of admission to the bar 
through the district courts, and vested the sole power of admis- 
sion in the supreme court. The fair enforcement of the rules 
adopted by the supreme court under that power has probably 
reduced by three-fourths the number of annual admissions to the 
bar and vastly improved the actual standard. Much has been 
done. Much remains to be done. The Law School will lead the 
way. But it looks hopefully to the supreme court for such 
further exercise of its powers as will make necessary fair aca- 
demic preparation upon the part of all law students. 



future Ctbbresses of '9 



Abbott. Charles E., 
Babcock. George E., 
Brown. Cyrus O., 
Brown. Frank E., 
Carr. John, 
Coleroan. Beach. 
Creigh. Thomas. 
Flaherty. Denis J., 
Gates. Jesse T.. 
Goff. Helen M., 
Goodlier, Ivan W., 
Green. Guy W. . 
Greenfield. Nathan N., 
Gustin. Frank J. 
Hasler. Gay. 
Hay ward. William H., 
Hildreth. Ward. 
Jones Elbert O.. 
Killen. David L., 
Madeen, Emma. 
Manville, Mahlon F., 
Matthews, Benoni C, 
Miller. WilleyH., 
Mousel, Charles, 
Parker. Jesse T. , 
Placek. Emil E.. 
Ridgley, Hilliard, 
Risser, George H., 
Smith, John D.. 
Thompson, Charles Y., 
True. Sidney M., 
Warner. Ernest F., 
White, Albert S.. 
Wilson. Clement L., 
Wilson, Denver L., 



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Johnson, Xeb. 
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JUNIORS 



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Ames, Ernest C, 
Belden, Oliver W., 
Brown, James A., 
Copeland, Lionel R., 
Cunningham, Marion O., 
Daly, Hugh B., 
Denison, John D., 
Du Frene, Frederick R., 
Eberstein, Conrad V. , 
Folsom, Ernest C, 
Fry, Emmett L., 
Green, Leslie B., 
Hines, Orphoseus F. , 
Houghtelin, Abram L., 
Humphrey, Fred L., 
Hyatt, Willet R., 
Imhoff, Charles H., 
Jones, Ernest D., 
Kemp, James H., 
Ladd, Charles F. , 
Lamb, Dwight W., 
Pace, IkeE. O., 
Ralston, George S., 
Roach, Leonard R., 
Sackett, Harry E. , 
Singhouse, John A., 
Steuterville, John H, 
Tishue, Walter C, 
Tobey, George E., 
Tucker, John M. , 
Unkefer, Leonard B., 
Warfield, George A., 
Wilson, Burton W., 
Young, Samuel A., 



Lincoln, Neb. 
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Ctlumrti dissociation 



A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE DOINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE LAW 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, FROM THE 
DATE OF THE ORGANIZATION TO THE PRESENT DAY. 

' ' The law is a sort of a hocus pocus science that smiles in your face while 
it picks your pocket, and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the 
professors than the justice of it.' ; 

Lawyers are undoubtedly the brainiest class of beings extant. 
The scope of their knowledge is confined to nothing. They are 
masters of all the sciences. What a lawyer does not know about 
men and things is not considered proper to know. 

It is this superhuman smartness which every lawyer possesses 
that impelled me to follow in the footsteps of my sire and enter 
the profession, which embraces knowledge of every possible 
character. I desired to familiarize it all, and as a consequence 
the Alumni Association of the Law School of Nebraska now has 
the honor of my membership. 

As an alumni society we first came into existence in June, 1895, 
at a time when the country was suffering from depression. A 
president and secretary were elected, and the following June new 
officers were named to assume the arduous duties connected with 
the preservation and maintenance of the association. There are 
no records of this institution, and we are entirely without money 
in the treasury. 

This embraces in full the Law Alumni Association, from the 
date of its birth to the present day. I have ventured somewhat 
into detail so that all members might be apprised fully in the 
premises, with the view that the record might be complete as far 
as we have gone. 

Although the labor has, in some respects, been arduous, yet I 
have experienced much pleasure in reviewing the grand work 
accomplished by the association. It has brought me into closer 
touch with many of my fellow members, and by comparison of 
the past with the future, I am made to realize the possibilities 
which lie before us. There is always pleasure in a contemplation 



AliUMNI ASSOCIATION 89 

of possibilities; a building of air castles as it were. It has been 
said that " To a healthy mind the world is a constant challenge of 
opportunities." If this is so, what a future is in store for us. 
We have not an unhealthy mind among us. I am advised by our 
statistician that the average condition of our minds is only two 
per cent lower than the alumni of the Harvard Law School, and 
five per cent lower than the law schools of California. This is 
really remarkable when we consider that the lawyers living upon 
the sea coasts eat a great deal of fish. And fish, as is well known, 
is a great brain producer. 

We of the middle states are at a disadvantage in this respect, 
it not being so much a custom of the people to eat fish in large 
quantities, owing to the scarcity and consequent high price. It 
is possible, however, to sometimes obtain a fair quality of fish 
here, as for instance Columbia river salmon, pike, from the west, 
and smelts and perch, which are frozen and shipped from the 
east. But they lose their freshness, and vitality, you might call 
it, in transportation, so that by the time they are placed upon our 
tables for final consumption, the real brain essence is gone and 
consequently they are of little value to us as a brain food. 

I have taken occasion to digress a little to the subject of fish, 
merely to show that our alumni are laboring at a slight handicap 
in favor of those who live on the coast. But what we lack (and 
it is very small) in brain development is completely overshadowed 
by the excellence of our capacity to do. our energy and push, 
and our unchallenged breadth of mind which enables us to suc- 
cessfully grapple the most intricate subjects and bring them to a 
scientific focus. We are essentially active and progressive. 
Long may we live and prosper. 

Addenda. — Since writing the above, I am advised that the 
officers of the association were and are as follows: 

President, Hon. A. A. Hatch, Secretary-Tr* easurer, Hon. A. 
G. Wolfenbarger; during the season of 1S95-96. Present in- 
cumbents: President, Hon. E. M. Tracy: Secretary -Treasurer, 
Hon. JohnH. Farwell. Executive Committee, Hon. F. H. Woods, 
'92; Hon. E. J. Burkett, '93; Hon. T. F. A. Williams. '94; Hon. 
R. E. Johnson, '95; Hon. J. L. Stephens, '96. 

Clarence Young Smith. 



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JULIAN A. ABBOTT, '96. Born at 
Fulls City, Nebraska. February 10, 1873; 
parents Americans. Graduated at Falls 
City High School in 1888. Has held assist- 
ant clerkships of Farmers' Bank at Broken 
Bow, and bank of Lushton, Nebraska. 
Present head bookkeeper in State Auditor's 
office. Free silver 
democrat. Address 
1611 Locust street, 
Lincoln, Neb. 

GRANT F. AHL- 
BL^RG, '94. Born March 9, 1871, near Ly- 
ons. Kansas; completed course at Lyons Iwt 




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HigaSchool in 1891; attsad3d the Univer- 
sity of Nebraska in 1893 and 1891. Form- 
erly a republican but is now a free silver 
democrat. Is practicing with much success 
at Lyons, Kansas. 

JOHN H. BARRY, '93. Born in Rock- 
ford, Illinois, October 7, 186S, of Irish 
&•• parents. Graduated from Wahoo High 

m m School in 1890. Mr. Barry was originally 

je a republican but is now a populist. Since 

1893 he has been engaged in the practice of 



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FRANK E. BISH- 
\'R*4 OP. '93. Born in La 

Grange county, In- 
diana, shortly after 
the war. Received 
the degree of B.L., from the University of 
Nebraska in 1891. Studied in the office of 
Marquette, Deweese & Hall. Upon gradu- 
ation he immediately began practice, and 
is now associate attorney in law department 
of B. & M. R. R. at Lincoln. 




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CLOFIS L. E. BLOUSEE '96. Born 
near Ft. Wayne, Indiana, June 13, 1870, 
of German and English parentage. He 
spent 1892 and 1893 in the commercial and 
normal courses at the National Normal 
University. Mr. Blouser is a dyed-in-the- 
wool democrat, and has been actively en- 
gaged in several cam- 
paigns. Is still un- 
m ar r ie d . Address, 
Fairbury, Nebraska. 

ELMER J. BURKETT, '95. Born De- 
cember 1, 1867, in Mills county, Iowa. B.D. , 
Tabor College, "90. Taught school and was 
principal at Leigh, Nebraska. Member of 
the house of representatives from Lancas- 
ter county in 1897. Was recognized as 
one of the leaders of the republican mi- 
nority. Address, 1026 O street, Lincoln, Nebraska, care of 
Tingiey & Burkett. 

WILLIAM M. CAIN, '91. Bom No- 
vember 15, 1868, in Oxford county, Prov- 
ince of Ontario, Canada. Attended the 
University of Nebraska some time before 
entering the College of Law. Is a demo- 
,ilM^^ crat, and was a candidate for the office of 

r m ' £^\ district judge in 189.~>. 
/ , Elected attorney for 

Butler county in 1896. 
Is married. Address, 
David City, Neb. 

EDWIN CAMMACK, '94. Born Sep- 
tember 1, L871, in Iowa, of American 
parents. Married Miss Minerva Hendrick- 
son in 181MI. Republican blood— true blood. 
He has never been a candidate for any 
elective office. With Harwood, Ames & 
Pettis, Lincoln, Neb. 







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WALLACE B. CLARK, '95. Bom 
January 11, 1865, at Ypsilanti, Michigan. 
Prepared at the Ashland, Neb., high school, 
of which he is a graduate. Is in the insu- 
rance business at present. Address, Ash- 
land, Nebraska. 

CHARLES W. COREY, '92. Born at 
Rockton, 111. , April 
25, 1862, of American 
parentage. Received 
the degree of LL.M. 
in '95. Has been en- 
gaged in public school work in Lancaster 

county. Nebraska since 1888, and is now 

principal of the Havelock schools. Politics, 

republican; status, married. Mr. Corey is 

well known among the teachers of the state, 

and is fast building up an enviable repu- HH 

tation. 

MISS ESTELLA M. DAVISSON, '96. 
Born in Washington, Iowa, December 14, 
1872. Graduated from the Long Pine high 
school before entering the College of Law- 
Miss Davisson is a very successful lawyer 
as shown by the fact that she has been 
elected attorney of Brown county on the 
republican ticket. 
Address, Long Pine, 
Nebraska. 

LEMUEL C. DAY, 
'96. Born July 15, 

1867, at Sparta, Pennsylvania. Took degree 

of B. C. L. class '92, at State Normal, Ecl- 

inborough, Pa. Member of class of '94, 

Washington & Jefferson college, but did not 

graduate. Married in '96. Has always been 

a consistent republican. Is now in active 

practice. Address, Nebraska City, Neb. 




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WM. ARTHUR DEARY, '96. Born at 
Brownville, Nebraska, August 18, 1866. 
Is still living in single blessedness. In 1895 
he received the degree of B. A. from the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska. Mr. Deary is an ex- 
perienced business man, and is rapidly 
coming to the front as an attorney. Ad- 
dress, 102 Burr Block, 



Lincoln, Nebraska. 



JNO. W. DIXON, 

'96. Born at Mem- 
phis, Tennessee, September 5, 1873. B.A., 
University of Nebraska, '94; B.A., Yale 
University, '95. While in College Mr. 
Dixon was a leading fraternity man, belong- 
ing to three different organizations. He 
is now engaged in practice at Nebraska City, 
Nebraska. 





WILLIS G. DURRELL, '92. Born a t 

Cincinnatti, Ohio, March 31, 1856. Was 
educated in the common schools and High 
School; also took a course in the Cincin- 
natti Commercial College. Held a number 
of important positions before entering the 
legal professsion. Is a republican. Ad- 
dress, St. Paul Build- 



ing, Fourth and Wal- 
nut streets, Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. 

AMBROSE C. EP- 
PERSON, '92. Born at Adair, Illinois, No- 
vember 18, 1870. Spent three years in 
Fairfield College. Has always been promi- 
nent in local politics, and is now serving his 
second term as county attorney. Address, 
Clay Center, Nebraska. 




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GEORGE W. FARR, '96. Born July 
6, 1875, at Marquette, Nebraska, of Scotch- 
Irish parents. Educated at Hastings Col- 
lege, Central City College, and University 
of Nebraska. Is a republican of approved 
integrity. Practicing 
at Miles City, Mon- 
tana, under name of 
Merrill & Farr. 

JOHN H. FAR- 
WELL, '96. Born 
September 25, 1873, 
at Lincoln, Nebraska, of American parent- 
age. Prepared at k k Howe Grammar School," 
1890. Is a man fct of parts" and still single. 
Secretary and treasurer of the Alumni As- 
sociation, College of Law. Republican. 
Address 1313 H street, Lincoln, Neb. 

CHARLES S. FERRIS, '93. Born at Vermillion, Illinois, in 
1863. Is still unmarried. Took degrees of A.B. and A.M. al 
De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 
in 1881 and 1887 respectively. Is a repub- 
lican. Practicing under the name of Chas. 
S. Ferris, Room 8, Richard's Block, Lin- 
coln. Neb. 

BEMAN C. FOX, '92. Born July 10, 
1867, at Morrisson, 
Illinois. Graduated 
from Palmyra ^Ne- 
braska High School, 
1895. Superintend- 
ent Lincoln, Nebraska 
office of Bradstreets Commercial Agency for 
two years. Present secretary of the Ne- 
braska Central Building and Loan Associa- 
tion. Secretary Young Men's Republican 
Club. Practicing in connection with other 
business. Address 1130 O St. , Lincoln, Neb. 





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WILLIAM C. FRAMPTON, '93. Born 
at Chariton, Iowa, March 21, 1864, of 
American and Scotch parentage. Prepared 
at Norton Normal College. Politics, re- 
publican. Married. Justice of the peace, 
1895. Member of the firm of Love & 
Frampton, 1104 O street, Lincoln, Neb. 



LAFAYETTE L. 
FUNK, '96. Born at 
Anderson, Ind., Au- 
gust 6, 1867. Studied 
at Valparaiso, Indiana, and the Univer- 
sity of Nebraska before entering the Law 
College. Has been five years a salesman for 
the McCormick Manufacturing Company. 
Politically he is a follower of Jackson. 
Practicing alone at Edward, Indiana. 

DAVID A. HAG- 



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*fl || I. II. HATFIELD, 
'94. Born April 7, 
^^^^^■^^B 1871, 

Iowa. Married. Re- 
ceived degree of B.S. in 1892, from South 
Dakota Agricultural College. Spent two 
years in the University of Nebraska. Po- 
litically Mr. Hatfield is independent. He 
is recognized as a coming man in legal cir- 
cles. Address, Room D, First National 
Bank Building, Lincoln, Neb. 



CARD, '93. Born at Winchester, Illinois, 
June 9, 1870, of American parentage. 
Graduated from the University of Ne- 
braska, '91, B.Sc. With Tibbets Bros., 
Morey & Ferris law firm. Politics repub- 
lican. Address, 1310 G St., Lincoln, Neb. 
Is still living in sino-le blessedness. 




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A. A. HATCH, '95. Born in Medina 
county, Ohio. Graduated at the Iowa State 
Agricultural College in 1881. Elected 
clerk of Hayes county in 1885. Admitted 
to the bar in 1888. He has the honor of 
being the first president of the Alumni 
Association of the College of Law. He is 
practicing in Sedalia, Missouri. 
WM. A. HAWES, 
: '93. Born at Rome, 
j Indiana, July 19, 1864, 
of English descent. 
Prepared at Central Normal College, Dan- 
ville, Indiana. Has taught thirteen years 
in Nebraska. Is now principal of College 
View schools, and a prospective candidate 
for county superintendent of Lancaster 
county. Unmarried. Politics republican. 
Address, 1621 K street, Lincoln, Neb. 

BENJAMIN D. HAYWARD, '94. Born 

September 19, 1859, at Pomeroy, Ohio. 
Graduated from high school, at Letart, 
\ Ohio, 1876. Attended Car leton college, Syr- 
Wk acuse, Ohio, in 1880, National Normal Uni- 

^^p versity, Lebanon, Ohio, 1881. Was superin- 

tendent of city schools and of county for a 
number of years at 
i St. Paul, Nebraska, 
| where he is now prac- 
ticing. 
BERTON L. HEN- 
DRICKS, '96. Born at Butler, Indiana, 
November 23, 1868. B. S., Western Nor- 
mal college, '91. A leader in educational 
circles. Married Miss Deana Eischer in 1893. 
Intends to study in New York city a year 
before practicing. Is at present superin- 
tendent of the city schools of Ulysses, Neb. 







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WALTER V. HOAGLAND, '96. Born 
at Bunker Hill, Illinois. November 30, 1ST0. 
A.B., University of Nebraska, '95. Depart- 
ment chairman, tenth division American Col- 
lege Republican League, '95. Now out of 
politics. Specialized in mercantile, corpo- 
ration, and insurance law. Address, North 
Platte, Neb., care of 
Hoagland and Hoag- 
land. M^ 

JAMES H. HOOP- 
ER, '94. Born March 

4, 1870, at Falls City, Nebraska. Graduated 

from high school at Falls City and took the 

degree of A.B. in the State University of 

Nebraska. Mr. Hooper is still unmarried. 

He is and has always been a consistent re- 
publican. Address, 1106 Tacoma Building, 

Chicago, Ills. 

GILBERT H. IRISH, '94. Born June 
17, 1872, at Sextonville, Wisconsin, of Irish 
stock. Attended Lawrence University at 
Appleton, Wisconsin, for a time. After 
graduating from the law school, practiced 
alone in Wisconsin for two years. Married 
Miss Luella Henderson, June 20, 1894. Ad- 
dress, Dallas, Texas, 
care of Starling, Irish 
& Sabin. 

RALPH E. JOHN- 
SON, '95. Born in 

1872 in Spencer, Indiana. Graduated from 

the Lincoln High School in 1889; B.A., 

University of Nebraska, '93. Was promi- 
nent in college politics. Was candidate on 

the republican ticket in the spring of '97 for 

member of excise board. Address, Room 8, 

First National Bank Building, Lincoln, Neb. 





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CHARLES H. KELSEY, '95. Born at 
Waterloo, Iowa, February 4, 1873. Is mar- 
ried. Attended Gates College at Neligh, 
Nebraska, before entering the State Uni- 
versity. Mr. Kelseyis a republican, and 
as such was elected attorney of Antelope 
county in the fall of 
1896. Address, Ne- 
liofh, Nebraska. 



»k M A. M. KEYES, '93. 

Born at Nebraska 
City, Nebraska, December 7, 1868. Is mar- 
ried. Graduated from the High School of 
Cambridge, Nebraska, class of '90. Has 
been deputy county treasurer of Furnas 
county. In politics Mr. Keyes is independ- 
ent, but has never been a candidate for 
office. Address, Beaver City, Nebraska. 

-^^^^^^^ HERBERT L. KIMBALL, '96. Born 
in Costalia, Iowa, in 1871. Graduated 
from the University of Nebraska, '95, de- 
gree of A.B. Is and always has been a 
republican. Is associated with and officing 
with A. A. Welsh, county attorney, Wayne, 
Nebraska. 

DAVID J. KOEN- 
IGSTEIN,'96. Born 
May 15, 1867, in Illi- 
nois, of German pa- 
rents. Attended Northwestern University, 

Watertown, Wisconsin, from 1881 to 1884. 

Has been a democrat, but is now a popocrat. 

Is an experienced business man, and finds 

his mercantile knowledge valuable in the 

law. Has a fine practice started at Norfolk, 

Nebraska, under the name of Koenigstein 

& Koenigstein. 





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W. J. LAMME, '96. Born December 
1, 1869, at Burlington, Iowa. Attended 
Howe's Academy, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, for 
three years. Also attended Elliott's Busi- 
ness College. Came to Seward, Nebraska; 
read law in the office of Judge C. E. Hol- 
land. Has been a republican and is still 
allied with the free 
silver wing of that 
party. Address, Ulys- 
ses, Nebraska. 
JAMES E. LEYDA, '95. Born Decem- 
ber 4, 1860, in Ohio. His parents were 
Americans. Mr. Leyda had the advantage 
of proper training in youth, and on coming 
to Nebraska in 1880, engaged in school teach- 
ing with marked success. He is married. 
Has always been a republican. Address, 
Falls City, Nebraska. 

D. W. LIVINGSTONE, '96. Born Feb- 
ruary 13, 1873, of Scotch parents. Mr. 
Livingstone is a populist, and in the mem- 
< orable campaign of 1896 was a candidate for 
I the state legislature. He made a strong 
fight, but was beaten by a narrow margin. 
He is practicing at Talmage, Nebraska. 



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AI. W. MARTIN, 

'96. Born October 27, 
1869, in Vinton coun- 
ty, Ohio, of Scotch- 
Irish-German parentage. Graduated from 
the High School of Valparaiso, Nebraska, 
in 1892. Attended the University of Ne- 
braska, '93 and '94. Has always been a 
strong republican, and while in college was 
president of the State Republican League. 
Is practicing at Dorchester, Nebraska. 






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FRED E. MAURER, '95. Born Decem- 
ber 25, 1874, at Red Cloud, Nebraska. 
Graduated from high school at Red Cloud 
in 1893. Is still single. Was born a re- 
publican but in late years has changed 
and is now a member of the Populist 
party. Address, Red 
Cloud, Nebraska. 

ARTHUR C. 





MAYER, '96. Born 

February 1, 1872, at 

St. Louis, Missouri, 
of German parents. Spent four years in 
school at Stuttgart, Germany. LL. M. , Yale 
university, '97. Clerk of the district court 
of Hall county a number of years; also 
deputy county treasurer. Republican in 
politics. Address, Grand Island, Nebraska. 

W^^^SM WILLIAM C - MENTZER, '95. Born at 
Leesburg, Indiana, October 13, 1867. Pre- 
pared at Drake University. Former home 
at Pleasantville, Iowa. Is now practicing 
at Des Moines, Iowa. 

CHARLES L. MERRILL, '96. Born 

April 25, 1849. Has been for many years 

engaged in the news- 

paper business and is 

well and favorably 

known in the state of 
Montana. He is a married man. Is treas- 
urer of Custer county, Montana. His 
firm of Merrill & Farr is doing an excel- 
lent business at Miles City. 





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MRS. ALICE A. MINICK, '92. Born 
at Geneva, New York, March 4, 1844. Re- 
ceived a classical and musical education in 
Baxters University of music. Friendship, 
New York. First woman registered in the 
College of Law; second woman admitted to 
practice in United States Circuit Court, and 
before court of claims. 
Admitted to practice 
before United States 
supreme court. Ad- 
dress, Beatrice, Neb. 

CHARLES F. NEAL, '95. Born Sep- 
tember 21, 1866, near Peru, Nebraska. 

Graduated from State Normal in 1892. 

Has always been a consistent republican 

and though never a candidate for office, is 

recognized as a leader in his county. Mr. 

Neal is still unmarried. Practicing under firm name of Neal & 

Neal, Auburn, Neb. 

HORACE W. ORR, '93. Born at West Pawlet, Vermont, 

March 27, 1865. Educated in Friend's Academy, Granville, N. Y. 

Read law in the office of Harwood & Ames from 1891 to 1893. 
Practiced in 1893-4. President of the Bank 
of Hemingford in 1894. Went to Newton- 
ville, Mass. , in 1895 where he is engaged in 
the plumbing business. 
HERMAN C. OS- 
TEIN, '95. Born at 
Tiffin, Ohio, October 
23, 1859. Graduated 
from the National 
Nor m a 1 University, 
Lebanon, Ohio, in 

1885 and 1886 with degree of B.S. and A.B. 

Attended Heidelburg University. Was 

married to Miss Olive McClain, June 12, 

1894. Superintendent of city schools. Albion, Neb. 




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RE A C. PACKARD; '96. Born at Red 
Oak, Iowa, October 25, 1872. Is a Yankee. 
Educated at Kearney High School and 
Institute. Unmarried. Made a number of 
political speeches during the last campaign 
for the republican party. Is at present 
collecting for the McCormick Machine Com- 
pany. Address, Oma- 



ha, Nebraska. 

D. E. PEIPER,'94. 

Born in Ohio, July 15, 

1873. Helped found 
Fitzgerald, Georgia, in 1895, and is one of 
the leading merchants in that city of 10,000 
people. Is a prominent republican, and is 
slated to be Fitzgerald's next postmaster. 
Address, Fitzgerald, Georgia. 

PAUL PIZEY, '95. Born at Dakota 

City, Nebraska, June 



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7, 1869. Attended the High School at home 
until 1887. B.L., University of Nebraska, 
1893. Politically, Mr. Pizey is a free silver 
democrat, and was a candidate for attorney 
of Dakota county on that ticket in 1896, 
Address, Dakota City, Nebraska. 

CHARLES W. RAIT, '96. Born at 
Eldred, Pa., August 



13, 1874, of Scotch- 
Irish descent. Like 
some others, he is still 
working in single harness. He is at present 
chief clerk in the office of W. O. Temple, 
Deadwood, South Dakota. Politics repub- 
lican. Charley says he does not own any 
gold minds yet, but thinks that being close 
to them will be an inspiration to greater 
efforts in the future. 



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JAMES E. RAIT, '96. Born at Eldred, 
Pennsylvania, December 18, 1876. His par- 
ents are Scotch-Irish. Mr. Rait is a con- 
servative republican, though he has never 
come before the public as a candidate for 
any office. He has not located to practice, 
but may be found by addressing him at 
Lincoln, Nebraska. 

MRS. NELLIE M. 
RICHARDSON, '91. 
Born in West Fair lee, 
Vermont, of Puritan 
stock. Ancestors were among the first set- 
tlers of the Green Mountain state. Ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1889, and to the su- 
preme court in 1891. Is prominent in club 
work and reform movements. Practicing 
alone and has established a successful, grow- 
ing business. Address, 106 Burr block, 
Lincoln Nebraska. 

WILLIAM F. SCHWIND,'92. Born Oc- 
tober 1, 1864, at Canton, Missouri. Took 
the degree of M.S. at Central Wesleyan 
University, Warrenton, Missouri. Mar- 
ried. Is a democrat. Was Mr. Bryan's 
secretary during campaign of 1896 and is one 
of the foremost men 
in his party. Secre- 
tary of the senate dur- 
ino- the 25th session of 
the state legislature. 
Address, Lincoln, Nebraska. 

VICTOR SEYMOUR, '92. Born May 
28, 1870, Macomb, 111. Parents American. 
Graduated from York, Neb., high school. 
Present official court reporter, third judicial 
district of Nebraska. Address, Lincoln, 
Nebraska. Politically he is a republican, 
socially he is single. 





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CHARLES M. SKILES, '95. Born at 
Fort Madison, Iowa, July T, 1865. B.L., 
University of Nebraska, '92. Was a leader 
in oratory and athletics while in the Uni- 
versity. Business manager Chamberlain's 
Business College summer of 1896; assistant 
editor of Even ing Post during the campaign 
of 1896. Is a free sil- 
ver speaker of much 
ability. Address, 
Ulysses, Nebraska. 
C. Y. SMITH, '94, 
Born in Quincy, Mass. Attended Quincy 
schools, Adams Academy, Quincy, and grad- 
uated from Thayer Academy, Braintree, 
Massachusetts. University of Nebraska, 
LL.M., 1895. Has sailed the Pacific, tra- 
versed the Continent, crossed the Atlantic 
twice, and traveled through nine countries 

of Europe. The future, with its constant 
challenge of opportunities, lies before him. 

GUSTAVUS J. STATES, '94 Born De- 
cember 31, 1851, in the state of Ohio. Re- 
ceived his education in the district schools 
and in the Lincoln High School. Is mar- 
ried. Politically, Mr. States is a free silver 
republican and prohi- 
bitionist. Address, 
Ragged Top, South 
Dakota. 

J. L. STEPHENS, '96. President of 
the Lincoln Business College. Is a Hawk- 
e}^e by birth and a Dutchman by marriage. 
He is in no sense a self-made man, but owes 
all he is and has to his parents, his wife, 
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EDAYAKD C. STEODE. '93. Born in 

Fulton county. Illinois, in 1870. Came to 

Nebraska in 1889, and entered the State 

&~ University. Received the degree of Master 

ps B ' of Law in 1S95. Began practice of law in 

^^- Lincoln, and is a mem- 

^ Z ±^ ber of the firm of 

0ffip Strode & Strode, f c > 

CHAS. F. STRO- 
MAL. '95. Bom at 
Wolcottville, Indiana, 
in 1869. In 1893 Mr. Stroman completed a 
course in the academic department of the 
State University, receiving the degree B.A. 
He has always been an ardent republican. 
Present address. York. Nebraska. 

FRED L. SUMPTER, '95. Bom at Fairbury. Nebraska. Au- 
gust 29, 1870. Completed course at State Normal in 1889. A.B. , 
Cotner University 1891. Postmaster at Bethany under Cleve- 
land. Appointed receiver for State Bank of Bethany. April 2L 
1896. In campaign of 1896, was candidate 
on fusion ticket for House of Representa- 
„gH^ tives. Address Lincoln, Neb., care of 

ml Brown & Sumpter. 

CHAS. E. TING- 

Sl LEY, '93. Bom at 

^^ B 1 a i r, N e bra s k a, 

*\-Jk fk A P ril --• 1872 ' of 

&■" — ■ American parentage. 

Graduated from Uni- 
versity of Nebraska 
in 1890, B. Sc. , and re- 
ceived the degree of A.M. from the same 
institution in 1891. Politics, republican; 
status, married. A member of the firm of 
Tingley & Burkett. Address 1026 O street, 
Lincoln, Neb. 




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EDWARD M. TRACY, 96. Born at 
Bloomington, Illinois, of American parent- 
age, with English and German ancestry. 
Married 1891 to Laura A.Wilkinson. Grad- 
uated from Curtis College, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, in 1891. County surveyor of 
Box Butte county in 1889. President of 
Alumni Association, 
College of Law. Poli- 
tics republican. Prac- 
ticing alone. Address 
85, Burr Block, Lin- 
coln, Nebraska. 

JAMES A WALKER, '93. Born Au- 
gust 12, 1861, in Coles county, Illinois. 
Married. Graduated from Ozark College, 
Greenfield, Missouri, degree B.S., in 1889; 
from University of Kansas in 1892, degree 
LL.B. Is a republican, and as such, has 

been alderman and is now mayor of his city 
Address, Lerna, Coles county, Illinois. 
FRANK E. WIGGINS, '96. Born at 
m is** College Springs, Page county, Iowa, Janu- 

gj ary 12, 1873, of Irish and American pa- 

rentage. Is at present a junior in the Uni- 
i ^ EL versity of Nebraska, from which he ex- 

P* pects to graduate in 
1 1898. Politics repub- 
lican. Address, 1228 
Q St,, Lincoln, Nebr 
JOS. A.WILD,'96. 
Born March 16, 1863, in Gage county, Ne- 
braska. Is married. Now editing the Wil- 
ier Republican, one of the best papers in 
Nebraska. Mr. Wild is widely and favor- 
ably known throughout the state. He is 
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RICHARD O. WILLIAMS. '93. Born 

July 13, 1869, at Mount Vernon, New York. 
Took A.B. degree in University of Ne- 
braska in 1891, having previously spent 
three years at Knox academy, Galesburg, 
Illinois. Mr. Williams has always been a 
stalwart republican. Address 1228 K St., 
Lincoln. Neb. Onic- 
ing with C. C. Flans- 
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THOMAS F. A. 
WILLIAMS, '94. Born August 16, 1871, 
at Tiffin, Iowa. B.L. , University of Ne- £& 

braska, 189*2. Attended College of Law of 



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Northwestern University one year. Is a 
leader among the young republicans of the 
capital city. Address Wolfenberger & Wil- 
liams, Bun Block, Lincoln, Neb. 

W. L. WILLIAMS, '96. Born at New 
Berlin, Illinois, September 12, 1871. Is 
not married but is liable to be any time. 
Attended the Beatrice High School before 
entering the College of Law. Is an earnest 
advocate of Bryan and free silver. Prac- 
ticing with the lirrn of Pemberton & Davis 
Beatrice, Neb. 

OWSLEY WIL- 
SON. '9-1-. Born in 
i Illinois in 1861, of * 

southern parentage. 
Moved to Denver in 1*72, where he at- 
tended school. Removed to Burwell, Ne- 
braska in L882, and to Lincoln in L892, 
where he has since resided and is now prac- 
ticing law. Politically a populist; he is a 
pioneer silverite and was "fusion" senato- 
rial candidate in Lancaster county in 1896. 







108 



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VICTOR E. WILSON, '96. Bom in Gales- 
burg, HI. } February 2, 1873. M. Accounts, 
Bryant Normal University, '91. Attended 
Doane College. Has been city treasurer 
and city clerk of Strorusburg, Neb. Has 
also been cashier and managing director of 
Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Strorus- 
burg. Is now a state 
bank examiner. Ad- 1 
dress, Omaha Na- 
tional Bank Building, 
Omaha, Neb. 
WILMER W. WILSON, '86. Born near 
Nebraska City, August 10, 1871. Is single. 
B. D. Highland, Park Normal College, '91. 
Specialized in History, Philosophy, Econo- 
mics, and Literature, in State University of 
Nebraska, '92 and '93. Fusion candidate for 
county attorney of 

Otoe county in campaign of '96. Address, 
Nebraska City, Neb. , Hayden & Wilson. 

THOMAS E. WING, '96. Born at Daven- 
port, la., November 18, 1872. A. B., Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, '93. Now in the Law 
School of the University of New York. 
Won the Nebraska Oratorical contest in 
1893. He expects to 
practice in New York 
City. Address, 59 Wall 
street, New York. 
ANDREW G. WOLFENBARGER, "95. 
Born in Virginia, 1856; received academic 
education in Iowa; taught school five years; 
seven years in journalism; admitted to prac- 
tice in district and supreme courts of Ne- 
braska, 1890; federal court, 1893; now pres- 
ident Nebraska Irrigation Association. Ad- 
dress law firm Wolfenbarger & Williams, 
Burr Block, Lincoln, Neb. 





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109 




FRANK H. WOODS, '92. Native of 
Illinois. B.L., University of Nebraska, 
1890. Attended law department of Colum- 
bia University, New York City, in 1890-91. 
Married to Miss Nellie Cochrane in the fall 
of 1891. Has never been a candidate for 
office though a consistent republican. Ad- 
dress Burr Block, Lincoln, Neb. 



FRED WOODWARD, '94, Born at 

Carbondale, Illinois, September 12, 1874. 
Graduated from Lincoln High School in 
1892. Attended the Southern Illinois Nor- 
mal University, also Southern Illinois Col- 
lege. Holds the degree of A.B., LL.B., 
and LL.M. Was candidate for county at- 
torney in spring of 1896 as a republican. 
Address Burr Block, Lincoln. Neb. 




JOHN W. COCHRAN, '95. Born December 27, 1873, at Free 
landsville,Indiana, of Scotch-Irish parentage. Came to Nebraska, 
and in 1891 completed the high school course in Lincoln. His 
politics "past, present, and future, are republican." Mr. Cochran 
is practicing in Lincoln under the firm name of Stevens & Coch- 
ran. 

WALTER I. FRIEL, '96. Born at Lafayette, Indiana, Septem- 
ber 23, 1872. He attended Drake University at Des Moines, 
Iowa, for some time. Previous to entering the law school he 
completed the course at the Lincoln High School. Address, 1617 
Vine street, Lincoln, Nebraska. 

PHILIP F. GREENE, '95. Born July 9, 1870, at Green- 
castle, Indiana. Graduated from Wabash College, Indiana. Is 
associated with the firm of Billingsley & Greene. Politics repub- 
lican. Address Lincoln, Neb., care Billingsley Block. 



110 THE DIGEST 

JAMES C. MANLEY, '90. Bom March 22, 1872, at Larue, 
Ohio. Mr. Mauley is still single. His political beliefs are aud 
have always been in complete harmony with the principles of the 
republican party. Address 1025 O street, Lincoln, Neb. 

RICHARD NEAL, '96. Born at Peru, Nebraska, December 
24, 1873. Completed the course at the State Normal in 1894, 
then entered the Law Department of the State University. Was 
married in 1896. Mr. Neal is a strong republican. He is prac- 
ticing at Auburn, Neb., under firm name of .Neal & Quackenbush. 

HENRY A. REESE. Born February 19, 1869, in Osceola, la. 
Moved to Nebraska early in life. B. L., University of Ne- 
braska, '91; LL. B., University of Michigan, '93; LL. M., Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, '94. A leader in the republican party and 
active in campaign work. Practicing under the firm name of 
Gilkeson & Reese. Address, Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln, Neb. 

CHARLES W. STARLING, '92. Born in Wisconsin, Febru- 
ary 5, 1861. Graduated from the Manston, Wis., High school in 
1878. Went to South Dakota in 1881, where he assisted in the 
founding of the Daily News at Aberdeen. Did editorial work 
until 1889. Now practicing law. Address, Dallas, Tex. , care of 
Starling, Irish, and Sabin. 



Directory of Ctlumnt 



COLORADO 

Colorado Springs. 

Gilbert M. Edraondson, '95. 

William B. McArthur '95. 
Delta. 

John P. Walsh, '95. 
Denver. 

Charles T. Brown, '92. 

William J. Brown, '94 

Theron W. Crissey, '93. 

Steven P. O'Hern, '93. 
Fort Morgan. 

Frank B. Kinyon, '95. 

CONNECTICUT 

New Haven. 

Arthur C. Mayer, '96. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Washington. 

John J. Pershing, '93. 

GEORGIA 
Fitzgerald. 

David E. Peiper, '94. 

INDIANA 

Elwood. 

Lafayette L. Funk, '96. 

ILLINOIS 
Chicago. 

Harvey B. Hicks, '94. 

James H. Hooper, '94. 
Galesburg, 1176 Tacoma Bldg. 

William H. Holden, '93. 

Edwin M. Holden, '93. 
Lerna. 

James A. Walker, '93. 



IOWA 
Des Moines. 

William C. Mentzer, '95. 

KANSAS 
Garnet. 

Charles C. Flater, '95. 
Highland. 

Benjamin F. Dillon, '94. 
Lyons. 

Grant F. Ahlburg, '94. 

MASSACHUSETTS 

'Newtonville. 

Horace W. Orr, '93. 

MICHIGAN 

New Haven. 

John A. Sullivan, '93. 

MINNESOTA 

Grand Rapids. 
J. 1 

MISSOURI 
Hillside. 

Thomas A Davidson, '93. 
Kansas City. 

Eugene C. Jones, '96. 
Sedalia, 

Andrew A. Hatch, '95. 

Arthur W. Barrett, '95. 

MONTANA 

Miles City. 

George W. Farr, '96. 
Charles L. Merrill, '96. 



112 



THE DIGEST 



NEBRASKA 
Albion. 

Herman C. Ostein. '95. 

Thomas H. Barkley, '95. 
Arlington. 

Alfred L. Cook. '95. 

Joseph C. Cook. '95. 
Ashland. 

Wallace B. Clark. '95. 
Auburn. 

Edmund B. Quackenbush, '96. 

Charles F. Xeal. '95. 

Benjamin F. Xeal, '93. 

Richard Neal. '96. 
Avoca. 

Clarence E. Tefft, '96. 
Bancroft. 

William TV. Sinclair.. '96. 
Beatrice. 

Alice A. Minick, "92. 

W. Leon Williams. '96. 
Beaver City. 

Albert M. Keyes. '93. 
Bnrwell. 

Lindsey A. Edwards. '95. 
Clay Center. 

Ambrose C. Epperson, '92. 
Dakota City. 

Paul Pizey, '95. 
David City. 

Alexander Thompson, '92. 

William M. Cain. '94 
Dorchester. 

Ai W. Martin, '96. 
FaHs City. 

Thomas L. Hall. '96. 

James E. Leyda. "95. 

Byron D. Poland, '96 

Arthur J. Weaver, '96, 
Fairbury. 

C. L. E. Blauser, "96. 

Robert A. Clapp. '93. 
Franklin. 

George M. Castor, '96. 
Gibbon. 

Emil Tollefsen. '92. 



NEBRASKA— Continued 

Greenwood. 

Phil. B. Green. '96. 
Havelock. 

Charles W. Corey. ; 92. 
Kearney. 

Edwin E. Scpiires, ; 93. 
Lincoln. 

Julian A. Abbott. '96. 

Frank E. Bishop. '93. 

Elmer W. Brown. '95. 

Elmer J. Burkett. '93. 

Edwin Camack, '94 

John W. Cochran, '95. 

William A. Deary, '96. 

Johh H. Farwell. '96. 

Charles S. Ferris. '93. 

Beman C. Fox. '92. 

William C. Franipton, '93. 

Walter M. Friel, '96. 

Philip F. Green. '95. 

David A. Haggard, '93. 

Ira H. Hatfield. '94. 

William A. Hawes. '93. 

Ralph E. Johnson. '95. 

James C. Manley. '96. 
, Carleton C. Marley, '95. 

James E. Rait, '96. 

William H. Raymond, "95. 

Henry A. Reese. '95. 

Nellie M. Richardson, '94 

Victor Seymour. '92. 

William F. Schwind, '92. 

Clarence Y. Smith. '94 

John L. Stephens, '96. 

Edmund C. Strode. 93. 

Fred. L. Sumpter. '95. 

Charles E. Tingley, '93. 

Edward M. Tracy. '96. 

Otis G. Whipple. '95. 

Frank E. Wiggins. '96. 

Thomas F. A. Williams. '94. 

Richard O. Williams, "93. 

Owsley Wilson. '94. 

Andrew G. Wolfenbarger, '95. 



DIRECTORY OF ALUMNI 



113 



NEBRASKA— Ck lit 

Lincoln. 

Frank HI Woods I 

I 1 - 1 Wood ward, i 

L ._ 7 :- 

Estella 1£ Davisson, "96. 
Minden. 

Charles P. Anderbery 
Nebraska Citv. 

Lemuel C. Dav. 96. 

John W Dixon.' 96. 

Wilmer W. Wilson 
Xeliarh. 

has. H. Kelsej a 

Daniel J. Koenigstein 
N rth Platte. 

Walter V. Hoasrland. "96. 
- rge C. McAllister, i 
Omaha. 

Andrew Larson 

I Lward M. Martin 

Ar:i:~r F X :_':__ : --;_ ~ 

Rea C. Pack -.-.: 

1 ictor E. Wilvi 
Ord. 

-James W. Baker 
Osceola. 

Thomas A. Dille. " 
P-a: ill: l 

Pike W. Chapman 
Pawnee City. 

Frank A. Barron 
Loud. 

[ i - L Maurer 
Rushville. 

Charles E. Woods 
Seward. 

Charles H. Miner 
South Omaha. 

William C. Lambert. 
St Paul. 

B. D. Ha v ward. 

Charles H. Paul. 

- 
Daniel W. Livingston. 96. 
Tekamah. 

urd M. V - 

-- - 
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W J. Lamm- 
Charles M. S 



NEBRASKA— Conch 

Wahoo. 

John H. Barry 
John L. Sundean 

Washin^rrm 

George W. Johnson. 94. 
Wayne. 

"Herbert L. Kimball. '96. 
w-;y --_■ 

Charles L. Talmadge. 

Joseph A. Wild. 
York. 

Charles 8 Sta 

NEW YORK 

New York Citv. 59 Wall St 
Thomas E. Wing 

OHIO 
Cincinatti. 

Willis G. Durrell I 
■ 

OKLAHOMA 
El Reno. 

George H. Pearl. 

- 1UTH DAKOTA 

Oenterville, 

Charles X. Madeer. 
Deadwood. 

Charles W. Rait 

Erwin 

John M. Carlson. '96. 
__- " Top. 

1 t;»:;it:s J. States 

TEXAS 

Charles W. Starlinsr. . 
Gilbert H. Irish. - 

ADDRESSES UNKNOWN 

William F. Woli 
Charles W. Mevers 
Levi C. Sloan, 
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A Word to the Wise . 63 

Class of Ninety-seven 7 

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Future Addresses of '97 85 

History of the College of Law 80 

Juniors 86 

Legal Ethics 71 

Maxwell Club 57 

One Thing and Another . .- 50 

Phi Delta Phi Fraternity 60 

Political Snap Shots 47 

Preparation for the Study of Law 66 

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